<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cmckn</author><text>I got an Air last spring, and yeah--it is really quick. Though I will say, my workload didn&amp;#x27;t see the sort of absurd speedup that some reviewers ogle about. I also still don&amp;#x27;t have a comfortable dev experience on the M1, because the world just isn&amp;#x27;t ARM-centric (yet). It&amp;#x27;s a great secondary computer, but unless you&amp;#x27;re an Apple developer, you should expect friction.&lt;p&gt;I recently built a 12th-gen Intel workstation for my main dev machine, because x86 is still the path of least resistance for the type of work I do. It&amp;#x27;s got a ton more cores, a higher memory ceiling, and faster storage than the MacBook. I&amp;#x27;d choose this over a Mac Studio, too; because I built it for a third of the price. I love my Macs, but I&amp;#x27;m enjoying linux (again, for the type of work I do). Different strokes, etc.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ketzo</author><text>Man, the M1 Macs are the first piece of tech in a while that I’ve felt myself actively pining over. They just seem… &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; goddamn fast. Everybody talks about it so glowingly.&lt;p&gt;Hoping I can pick one up soon. I figure the Pro is probably the right move for a developer workload, although I do like the size of the Air.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks</title><url>https://spacedoutandsmiling.com/blog/2021-12-27-nerdy-aws-graviton-vs-m1-vs-m1-pro-nodejsr-benchmarks</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thatswrong0</author><text>Yeah, I&amp;#x27;m completely satisfied. The M1 Pro is definitely the best computer for the money I&amp;#x27;ve purchased, despite it costing an arm and a leg to get more RAM and SSD space.&lt;p&gt;For my workload (music production), and despite still having to run Ableton through Rosetta, it can handle roughly twice as many tracks as my 2018 MBP (which luckily is _not_ something I purchased). All my previous &amp;quot;problem&amp;quot; projects now run perfectly. And this is all while running completely silently and barely getting warm compared to my 2018 MBP, which runs fans full blast and gets super hot if I so much as glance at Ableton. Can&amp;#x27;t say I miss the hiss of the fan when I&amp;#x27;m trying to mix tracks.&lt;p&gt;If the developers of plugins I use all the time ever get their ducks in a row and finally get around to updating them to support native ARM (that&amp;#x27;s the current limiting factor), I imagine it will be even better.&lt;p&gt;Kind of embarrassing that it&amp;#x27;s taking some devs so long.. Steve Duda managed to get Serum updated within a couple months of the original M1 release.</text><parent_chain><item><author>ketzo</author><text>Man, the M1 Macs are the first piece of tech in a while that I’ve felt myself actively pining over. They just seem… &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; goddamn fast. Everybody talks about it so glowingly.&lt;p&gt;Hoping I can pick one up soon. I figure the Pro is probably the right move for a developer workload, although I do like the size of the Air.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks</title><url>https://spacedoutandsmiling.com/blog/2021-12-27-nerdy-aws-graviton-vs-m1-vs-m1-pro-nodejsr-benchmarks</url></story>