Hell, sometimes, the fans don't even turn on for my short compiles. The performance per watt of these machines is legendary.
—Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <m...@macports.org> MacPorts Trac WikiPage <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark> GitHub Profile <https://github.com/markemer> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 11:26 AM Mark Anderson <m...@macports.org> wrote: > I have a M1Max with 64, but I did have an M1 with 16 and most things ran > faster than on my 2019 Intel Mac. The bump to M3Max might be worth it if > you do a lot of number crunching or anything that can use a GPU, but even > the lowest end machines are crazy fast. > > The only thing I'll say is that 8GB is not enough on the M3 - don't get > that one, but 24 should have you zooming along nicely. > > —Mark > _______________________ > Mark E. Anderson <m...@macports.org> > MacPorts Trac WikiPage <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark> > GitHub Profile <https://github.com/markemer> > > > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:22 AM Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> > wrote: > >> On Nov 14, 2023, at 10:04 PM, Alexander Newman via macports-users < >> macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote: >> > 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? >> >> I'll let others chime in for the specific ports you mentioned (as I don't >> use them) - but for reference I have an M1Pro/16G MacBook Pro and macports >> + all the ports I care about work fine on it (and it's quite a bit more >> responsive than my 2018 mac mini). >> >> -- >> Daniel J. Luke >> >>