Xcode is obviously native M1 while Android Studio still don’t have an M1 build yet. To be fair, I’m not coding mobile apps so resource usages are not demanding. The SoC temperature is sitting between high 30s and mid 40s degrees Celcius. Oh and Docker is running a MongoDB container. I can still do a lot, I code without any sluggishness at all. All that took 47% of memory with ~30% CPU usage. It’s NOT slow at all.Ī lot of apps is running including Pycharm along with the Photos app curating my photos.

I bought the 256GB Air with 8GB of RAM, it’s enough. Go here to check if M1 builds for your apps are available. I guess this is Apple’s way of saying to developers to provide M1 builds. Whenever I try to block a text or copy paste, there is a significant delay interrupting my flow. Apps that are ran with Rosetta 2 will suffer from text manipulation sluggishness. To put things short, anything not built for M1 will work using Rosetta 2 but the experience would be degraded. Visual Studio Code - M1 builds in beta, running x86 build with Rosetta 2 is not a great experience.Pycharm (and other IntelliJ based IDE) - M1 builds are official.

Docker - Only technical preview builds are available, it’s fine for my limited use case of spinning up just database daemons.Apps for M1Įverything works as of now although some of them with an asterisk: But that’s not all I have to say, I’m looking at this from a software engineer’s point of view. The i9 16” is just not in the same league as this M1 Air. At the moment I have a Macbook Pro 16” i9 top of the line, a Ryzen 5600X gaming PC and this new laptop. In short, It’s GREAT! What can I say more other than it’s just a fantastic machine to play with.

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