Mastodawn

I have now completed two full working weeks with an M4-processor Apple laptop running MacOS. I had heard a lot about how amazing and fast these things are, and let me tell you: no

utter horseshit, the speed is pretty unremarkable (it's fine) but the OS itself reminds me of 2007-era linux (nothing works quite right, random UI elements lag, text scaling doesn't meaningfully work, every program comes with a quirks list because each model is apparently differently broken)

Show thread

cancel Feb 28

@khm they seemed really fast if you were coming from Windows 10 or an Intel Mac where the OS and bad software overhead had totally swamped the performance of Intel and AMD chips at the time.

The M-series was a sudden jump up in processor speed. After a couple of years, the software gained enough new slowness to match the previous slowness running on Intel.

Show thread

pixx

@cancel
Yeah i was gonna say i heard good things about m1, not m4, and the software has gotten drastically worse since then

I'm curious what performance would look like with, say, that 2007 era linux ;)

@khm