OT but does anyone else find their M1 Mac to have very bimodal performance? I have an M1 Macbook Pro (2020 model) and in general it's very fast. It's certainly the fastest web-browsing machine I've ever used.
But when I overload it (dev servers running, Google Meet, Notion / Slack all up) it goes full spinning-beach-ball and sometimes takes minutes to recover. It seems like in particular it's much too eager to give 100% of all cores to something like "npm build" and doesn't leave enough power behind to run the UI. For example it's really common for my music to skip/jump when my code compiles, which is not something I'd expect on any modern computer.
My Intel MacBooks before this and my Windows laptop never have these kinds of issues. They definitely got very slow at times, but never totally locked up.
But when I overload it (dev servers running, Google Meet, Notion / Slack all up) it goes full spinning-beach-ball and sometimes takes minutes to recover. It seems like in particular it's much too eager to give 100% of all cores to something like "npm build" and doesn't leave enough power behind to run the UI. For example it's really common for my music to skip/jump when my code compiles, which is not something I'd expect on any modern computer.
My Intel MacBooks before this and my Windows laptop never have these kinds of issues. They definitely got very slow at times, but never totally locked up.