Comments on Profile Post by Vtory

I already somehow knew it would run my codes faster.. but noise and power are more phenomenal than anticipated.

Unless you’re gaming or under very certain workstation requirements, the apple silicon absolutely dominates over the x86 space right now.

Going from a 2019 i9 MacBook Pro to a 2021 M1 Max MacBook Pro was the biggest upgrade experience across any product I’ve ever owned.

With my company’s security software in mind, I went from 45-90 minute battery life on Teams calls while multitasking to over 12 hours on a single charge with the new one. Three-ish years in and still as good.

Did you experience any hiccups switching from Win to Mac?

I recently moved to M3 Pro and experience has been quite good. I should have spent some extra on RAM but went with base RAM version. However as of now works like a charm for all my projects. Some good deals during Black Friday on Mac

@Vansen Yup. Si-powered MBPs are tops esp when pwr and mobility are needed. I also have m3max MBP.. it's a killer portable + serious workstation and the batt life under super heavy comps is awesome..

@joch Mostly very smooth and thumbs up. Some open source is harder to find (for me anyway). For example, couldn't find FOSS equivalent to foobar2k in terms of func/refine.

@Ksaurav402 IME osx schedulers are more efficient in alloc/managing mem. But for mem hungry work, cash should prioritize RAM over internal storage size. Very happy with 32G for mac studio and 64G for mbp..

I just can't get myself to like osx, maybe in a year asahi linux is in better shape.