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I'm a backend dev, I've been using a base model m1 air since it was released, I've never felt it slow down, I still have no reason to update. 99% of people who
by lm28469 1y ago
I'm a backend dev, I've been using a base model m1 air since it was released, I've never felt it slow down, I still have no reason to update. 99% of people who will buy these entry level machines will not hit thermal throttling or if they do they won't care
- koakuma-chan 1y ago"backend dev" does not say much. What language are you using?
- lm28469 1y agoGolang, but does it matter ? What do people do with these entry models anyways ? Users who have high expectations will know better than to buy these, but for the average joe they will be more than sufficient
- koakuma-chan 1y agoFair enough
- genghisjahn 1y agoI’m a backend dev with an m1max and 64gb ram. I run golang, various docker containers and an occasional ollama llm plus a few games. This machine still feels like it has infinite resources.
- 7thpower 1y agoThis is similar to me, without ollama. I sometimes fantasize about a new MacBook but even my docker containers offload their hard work to apis, so outside of memory, I do not want for much. My m1max is getting along quite nicely, I love this thing.
- Coffeewine 1y agoMan, it's wild how we have such different experiences. I have a base level M1 air, and I feel like it chugs along anytime I ask it to do anything even vaguely computationally expensive. Obviously that's not rigorous, but that's my subjective impression.
- omnimus 1y agoI also have the cheapest M1 air and the only bottleneck is memory. Once you have too many things open it's not happy. But doing webdev this thing compiles 40% faster than my (older) xeon 8 core desktop machine. It even plays Baldurs Gate 3 (but it takes too much space on the drive lol)