Thread about companies upgrading to M1 Max MacBook 2021

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41 points·onmyway133··5 comments

Very jealous. I work in Tesla firmware (throwaway account) and builds are notoriously long.

It was 4 years before I received a new laptop and I had to threaten to put in a 2 week notice before I finally was approved for a new one (I had been asking patiently for over a year.).

Still common to this date for us to use outdated hardware. Great company, but does not understand the importance of equipping engineers with up to date hardware.

I also don’t understand the logic behind handicapping own employees. The hardware cost is really trivial. I’m in academia for years and I basically just buy my own hardware at this point. I started doing it when the associate dean of research at my university refused to reimburse me for wireless mouse and keyboard bought from my own research budget! I realized that they won’t approve anything that’s not in their standard equipment list, which has basically 2-3 Dell computers.

The new laptop helped tremendously with build speeds. It's puzzling why we skimp out on a few thousand $ of hardware for engineers making 6-7 digit incomes.

I really wanted the M1 upgrade story to be a slam dunk, but it seems like docker on arm64 is a real thorn of incompatibility and poor performance with amd64 images.

We also got a bunch of M1 Pro’s and are running into this. For the more typical web stuff we’re just using ARM packages and it’s going fine, but for a large SAAS there are too many differences between dev and production this way.

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