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I dont understand this HN infatuation with apples new chip laptops. Ppl are doing everything under the sun to make it work in random ways that arent supported yet etc.

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>I dont understand this HN infatuation with apples new chip laptops. Ppl are doing everything under the sun to make it work in random ways that arent supported yet etc.

(a) HN has people who like new technology.

(b) This particular new technology is also very good.

What's difficult to understand about it?

People have been tinkering with WSL and Linux to have all kinds of things working "in random ways that arent supported yet etc", M1 is not that different...

The chip is insanely fast, runs without a cooler, consumes very little power.

Who do you think turn unsupported things to supported? Developers. Developers who also happen to hang out at HN and like to talk about new developments around this chip.

It’s new tech with a lot of promise, in a decent laptop. Experimenting to see what you can do with it is very solidly within HN’s typical audience.

It's almost like the same people that try to make things work in random ways are the same ones who frequent sites like these....

Personally I can't wait to upgrade my iMac to the one with the new chips as soon as they come out, but the fact that setting up a dev env is still a pain (whether it's Docker or a VM) makes me hesitant.

I want to run multiple VMs at the same time and my current quad core iMac struggles. So I was thinking of getting a beefy Lenovo Workstation to use as a dev environment and use the VScode remote ssh thing. But in that case I don't really to upgrade my iMac.

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