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Entalpi | 4 years ago

Intel tried to ”design down” their uArch.

Also, there is a TON of pro Mac users. If we define ’pro’ as getting paid for work done on Macs..

Not to mention M1 emulates x86 pretty darn well..

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soylentnewsorg|4 years ago

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falkaer|4 years ago

The M1 (laptops) do emulate x86, and the M1 (chip) has a few x86 specific instructions to improve emulation performance

true_religion|4 years ago

Hipster graphic designers make upwards of 150,000 a year in my area. The professional in pro, never actually meant “software engineer”. It meant anyone who can hang up their signboard and work on their own: lawyers, doctors, architects, and yes… graphic designers.

Personally, I think software engineers don’t need fast laptops either. We need mainframes and fast local networks. Nothing beats compiling at the speed of 192 cores at once.

Which reminds me, laptops and render farms is exactly the technique those hipster graphic designers you talked about are using so they aren’t missing out on any power.

zimpenfish|4 years ago

> The m1 does not emulate x86. You literally don't know what you're talking about.

What is it doing when it runs x86_64 binaries then?

tarsinge|4 years ago

Just say it: using a laptop on battery power is for hipsters.