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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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1080 points antipaul | 1 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Aperocky ◴[12 Nov 20 02:22 UTC] No.25065701[source]▶
ARM is the future, at least in laptops.

Apple lead the fray again, it's incredible.

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systemvoltage ◴[12 Nov 20 02:51 UTC] No.25065872[source]▶
I have a burning question: Can I use gcc, python, etc. on the new M1-based Macbooks? I am thinking about getting one but not sure if I can use it as a development machine. How does rosetta translation layer work with brew apps and other binaries?
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1. my123 ◴[12 Nov 20 03:49 UTC] No.25066218[source]▶
Yes you can.

For GCC targeting arm64 macOS, the dev branch is at https://github.com/iains/gcc-darwin-arm64/ currently.

For Rosetta, everything runs except virtualisation apps.