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>I am blown away by my M1 Mac, but my x86 Mac feels about 5-10% snappier on Big Sur.

For clarification, do you mean your x86 with Big Sur is faster 5-10% faster than you M1 with Big Sur, or is it compared with the same machine running what I'm going to guess is Catalina?

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Sorry, I mean my x86 machine has improved in performance with the upgrade to Big Sur.

The M1 MBA (16gb RAM) feels snappier and more responsive in almost every way to my Mac Mini w/64gb of RAM. RAM usage is also noticeably lower on the M1 when I migrated my browser tabs over (500+ between Firefox and Safari).

Very interesting. Thanks for the clarification.

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