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Really hope x86 virtualization/translation gets better. Love the battery life and snappiness of the 16inch model I have from work but docker and other stuff I need daily to work on x86 projects is worse than on my 2015 Razer laptop.

I really would love to pick up an air for personal use though and just ssh/vnc into my Linux machines remotely

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macOS Ventura will include Rosetta for Linux. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/macos-ventura-will-e...

I doubt it will get better. Mosy likely the developers will start releasing native M builds

The point of Docker is to run in development what you run in production. As long as you deploy on x86, the fact that the software can be compiled for ARM, is not that useful.

Surely the alternative is to deploy on ARM? Graviton demonstrates the benefit pretty nicely - substantially lower cost per unit of performance, and better achievable density because of less heat.

Graviton is AWS-specific. Arm is not only still uncommon for hosting, non-AWS arm is often not that competitive. Even big names like ovh or heroku won't let you run apps on arm. (ovh only on bare metal)

Soon on Google Cloud too. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/arm-on-compu...

I’m sure that azure has something in the works too. The benefits are just too great for the world to be held back by x86.

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