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Docker reveals why its virtual machine isn't yet on Apple Silicon M1
(incidentally, Slack, VSCode, and my Node stuff is all running fine on Intel Big Sur. If Slack couldn't run on M1 Big Sur we'd sure as hell have heard about it by now.)dewme said:Interesting. I keyed in on the mention of Electron. Is there a problem running Electron apps on Big Sur? Anyone using Slack, Visual Studio Code, or their own node.js apps having problems on M1 Macs?
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Docker reveals why its virtual machine isn't yet on Apple Silicon M1
Even worse — Homebrew's package support is very, very spotty. This makes M1 Macs a deal-breaker for any serious web or backend developer until at least next summer.
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Docker reveals why its virtual machine isn't yet on Apple Silicon M1
Electron apps are a fscking plague. It’s shameful that the very people who should care most about quality apps — developers — have embraced this hacky platform.
that said, I haven’t heard of any issues with Electron running on M1, I’m sure it’s the least of Docker’s concerns.This news had me wondering why Apple didn’t open a lab at Infinite Loop where a couple Docker developers would have highly secure access to a couple M1 machines over the past year to get this work done — Docker is very, very important software for devs — but then I remembered COVID.Bad news for guys like me… I won’t be able to fully transition my work until this is sorted out. -
What the Apple Silicon M1 means for the future of Apple's Macs
“Instead [... of just an iPad A14]… an entirely new chip explicitly optimized for the Mac. And it's more than just a chip. As a ‘System on a Chip’...”I don’t think this article makes the case that there is anything “entirely new” about the M1 at all. How is it any more or less than an A14 (also a SOC) with eight cores instead of six, and an eight (or seven) core GPU? Thunderbolt, maybe?Regarding eGPUs... if support was coming, there would need to be drivers, and so far there isn’t even a hint of the existence of ARM ATI drivers in Big Sur.
i think Apple showed their hand with the Mac Pro “Afterburner” card. What’s that old aphorism, “people don’t want a drill, they want a hole”? Instead of support for “Radeon cards,” Apple is thinking about what people actually want to accomplish with them, and developing a product around that. Which kinda sucks IMO, I don’t think Apple can second-guess the needs of all buyers like that, and it’s an expensive path for consumers...
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What the Apple Silicon M1 means for the future of Apple's Macs
The computers that weren’t updated — the 16” MBP and the iMac, basically — both have the expectation of being higher-performing computers with discrete GPUs, which will require something akin to an “M1X”. Even Apple has constrained resources.2morrow said:Could some explain why they were not able to update the higher end MacBook Pros with the M1?
