Re: Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

2023-11-15 Thread Jim Secan
ew 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 a

Re: Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

2023-11-15 Thread Craig Treleaven
> On Nov 14, 2023, at 10:04 PM, Alexander Newman via macports-users > wrote: > > I use Inkscape, R and Octave https://ports.macports.org/port/inkscape/details/ https://ports.macports.org/port/R/details/

Re: Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

2023-11-15 Thread Mark Anderson
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 MacPorts Trac WikiPage GitHub Profile On Wed, Nov 15,

Re: Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

2023-11-15 Thread Mark Anderson
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

Re: Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

2023-11-14 Thread James Linder
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 > wrote: > > Hello All, > > I hope that this is the right place to ask a few questions about Apple

Re: Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

2023-11-14 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Nov 14, 2023, at 10:04 PM, Alexander Newman via macports-users 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 th

Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

2023-11-14 Thread Alexander Newman via macports-users
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