Gotta say my M1 exceeds all expectations. Virtually no fan noise, I almost thought it was broken until I had a better look.
Performance wise it compiles my code much much faster than my 2019.
In terms of battery I can take it for a full day's work in town doing the same coding work, and there's no need to start looking for a charging point. Not even "just in case". I don't even have to think about maybe closing one of the apps, I just run it with 5 IDEs and 15 projects open, though that's probably down to having plenty of RAM rather than the CPU.
The new architecture also doesn't make much difference. Stuff just works, though homebrew needs to be told it's not on Intel anymore (terraform breaks weirdly if you don't do this). There seem to be plenty of M1 versions for your generic coder stuff.
Performance wise it compiles my code much much faster than my 2019.
In terms of battery I can take it for a full day's work in town doing the same coding work, and there's no need to start looking for a charging point. Not even "just in case". I don't even have to think about maybe closing one of the apps, I just run it with 5 IDEs and 15 projects open, though that's probably down to having plenty of RAM rather than the CPU.
The new architecture also doesn't make much difference. Stuff just works, though homebrew needs to be told it's not on Intel anymore (terraform breaks weirdly if you don't do this). There seem to be plenty of M1 versions for your generic coder stuff.