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Meh, the older 12” MacBook (not pro, not air) was also fanless. I miss that 2 lbs design quite a bit.
Tagbert
I had the 11” Air and it was a delightful little laptop at the time. Very similar to the 12” MacBook. The screen was small and the screen height was limited but it worked well with an external monitor when at my desk. I may go try to fire that up today.

I would not be surprised if Apple eventually brings out a new laptop that addresses the ultra-portable market. With new screens it might be a 13” screen in a tight & light case.

fmajid
And it had abysmal performance, unusable for any development task.
Redoubts OP
I developed on it just fine, and that’s certainly not the only task a laptop is useful for.
fmajid
This is *Hacker* News.

I had a Docker build that would take 4 hours on mine when it completed in under 15 minutes on my Mac Mini.

musicale
> Docker

Many people use/need Docker, but of course it requires a Linux kernel (often running in a hypervisor if you're running macOS.) VMs can easily eat up a lot of resources, especially memory. Alternately a VM without enough memory will also perform abysmally.

I've also heard complaints about poor performance (vs. native Linux or even WSL on x86 hardware) of x86 Docker images running in emulation on an M1 MacBook Air.

fmajid
Those docker images were not light, and the max 8GB RAM on the MacBook didn't help, but emulation was not the problem, this was x64 on x64. It's just the Intel m CPUs are just slow, here's the MacBook compared to my Mac Mini:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/12140024?baseli...

and here versus the 2013 MacBook Pro that I normally used instead for development:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/compare/1965771?baselin...

You should run arm64 images on your M1 Mac, in fact at my company we are shifting all the workloads we can to Graviton2 on AWS because of the substantial cost savings, but yes, porting is not a completely trivial exercise and migrating our development environment over to Docker on M1 is still work in progress, and in the meantime we have scrounged up all the Intel MacBook Pros in the company and reserved them for developers.

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