Last month, Apple announcedits new MacBook Pro modelswith an updated M1X ARM-based processor.
This means that developers can take better advantage of these power upgrades.
Thats not a small amount by any means.
But that hasnt stopped companies likeTwitter,Uber, and Shopify from giving their developers these machines.
We’re seeing improvements in both top line performance and thermal throttling that currently plague our Intel builds.
Theres a solid reason behind that: compilation time.
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We recently found that the new 2021 M1 MacBooks cut our Android build times in half.
The break-even point happens at 3 months.
TL;DR Engineering hours are much more expensive than laptops!
Folks ona Reddit threadalso pointed out that the new M1X CPU can outperform many desktop configurations in multithreaded compilations.
But do developers really NEED these hyped-up configurations?
Apart from faster complications, some creatives have good things to say aboutvideo editingand rendering using these new machines.
Sure, some tasks such as heavy graphics rending andVFXwork might still be suited for powerful desktops and servers.
That’s one heck of a mixed bag.
He likes to say “Bleh.
That’s one heck of a mixed bag.
He likes to say “Bleh.”
