To be honest, there is some significant power in those M1 chips Much more
than it would seem. Linus tech tips does a decent job of looking at the
performance and workload and it is rather impressive for a first go-round.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:05 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> >> I would be fascinated by seeing Linux running on that level of an arm
> SoC instead of the glorified mobile shoved in laptop silicon.
>
> I think the arm-based macs are probably great for non-power users that get
> by with 8gb of ram (ie. most mac users), run no vm's (including Fusion for
> windoze office, etc), and in general don't do much that isn't a basic app.
> Same folks that love to show everyone how they function on an ipad
> exclusively as ultimate fanbois, but ultimately don't do much with a
> computer anyways.
>
> Everyone else still needs Fusion+Windoze, windoze apps, etc in an
> enterprise as microsoft and others still treat them as a second-class
> citizen.  Plus I can't imagine these are very good for video or audio
> editing (yet), which others seem to love macs for, but maybe when they get
> to the 64 core chips, some more (expandable) ram, and everyone
> rewrites/optimizes their software for arm instruction instead of intel.
>
> Apple devices always seem more of a fashion statement than anything imho,
> but whatever one likes...  It's as much a religious debate at this point as
> linux vs. windoze.
>
> -mb
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