My reply wanders OT but may be of interest to the OP. Certainly would have been useful to me 2 weeks ago
> On Nov 15, 2023, at 11:04, Alexander Newman via macports-users > <macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I hope that this is the right place to ask a few questions about Apple > Silicon Hardware and MacPorts - I won’t be offended if this post is ignored. > > I’ve trawled through the FAQs but can’t find any references to Apple Silicon > hardware, which I assume is a good thing. I do realise that a number of > MacPorts ports appear not to be compilable for AS systems, yet. I’ve had no issues with my ports: qt6, bash, qt6-charts, curl, inkscape but I needed the full XCode. Using a macbook pro, M3, sonoma. I used some unix thuggery to rid of SIP, install a root password etc. > I currently have a mid-2010 27” i7 iMac (32 MB RAM) that is running Ventura > on top of OCLP On my 2011 iMac27 (i5) I was unable to get OCLP to work. Could not get past “No Such File” or similar. Only difference I see is a 2T samsung flash (Which makes the machine a pleasure to use.) > (and doing much better than it did natively running High Sierra with the last > security updates). I am using this solution until I can figure out what Apple > Silicon best meets my needs with respect to compiling MacPorts ports (I use > Inkscape, R and Octave, amongst other things). The middle range 14 Core M3 is faster than 6 core i7. I use mythtv and that is on par with the best I’ve seen. > I should also say that an entry-level 2017 21.5” iMac (bottom spec) that one > of my family members acquired is without doubt the worst computer that I’ve > ever used, and that includes 8088/6 DOS machines. Nice screen, but a horror > to do try and do anything on. > > I have been waiting for several years to see what I can replace the 27” iMac > with - the Mac Studio is probably over-powered for my requirements, the Mac > mini M2 needs an external display (finding a decent quality 27”+ display > seems to be difficult here were I live, in Australia, Scortptec have nice 27” and 32” samsung 4K monitors for under AU$300 > and the Apple Studio Display is wickedly expensive), and I wasn’t at all sure > that the M1 iMac would cut it, especially after the experiences with the > ghastly 21.5” iMac. > > The M3 iMac is out now, which may or may not change things, so I am currently > pondering whether I should plump for a specced-out M3 iMac now, wait to see > what sort of mini (M3, M3 Pro?) comes out next year (presumably), or wait for > a lower-end M3 Max Studio (again, next year, and least preferred option). > > Are large-ish MacPorts ports going to compile all right on a 24 MB RAM iMac > with, say, a 2TB SSD, without the hardware throttling? The same with running > R. Do many people on this list use AS machines, and what are their > experiences and advice regarding MacPorts on them? Am I in fact over-thinking > it? Mine is a M3 14core with 36G RAM but is certainly quick, quicker than a 6 core i7. So far the only issue that has beaten me: I cannot install a Case Sensitive file system on sonoma, allthough I have read: Format the disk Case Sensitive then do a timemachine restore. I can’t imagine discent in this forum but let me say in unix-land INSTALL and install are quite different files. James
