

My experience was quite different on my use case. On Apple apps, native Arm apps, and Safari, I think users should get good battery life. Want assured battery life- The M1 chip is a derivative of the iPhone and iPad chip and overclocked, so you’d expect good battery life. The Register reported that “the GCC compiler has yet to receive Apple Silicon support, and that's led some to argue that anyone serious about scientific computing should avoid M1-based Mac models.”īefore you dive in, check to make sure your apps run well with the M1’s new architecture. Slack is based on the Electron IDE, where one of its software engineers said here that Rosetta 2 will make app (like Slack) “performance will be significantly degraded.” I experienced lags in Chrome, Skype for Business, Webex, Zoom, and Teams. I couldn’t see any issues at all with Word or PowerPoint. Outlook was better but I experienced some lags. Rosetta 2 CPU performance hit versus native code Anandtechįor me, Edge browser was very, very slow and indicative of complex code. That same site lists Rosetta 2 issues with:

The installer just sat there, and I had to hard reboot the entire system.
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I couldn’t even install Adobe Reader XI 11.0.10.
