<div dir="ltr">Hell, sometimes, the fans don't even turn on for my short compiles. The performance per watt of these machines is legendary.<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>—Mark<br></div><div>_______________________<br>Mark E. Anderson <<a href="mailto:mark@macports.org" target="_blank">mark@macports.org</a>><br></div><div><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark" target="_blank">MacPorts Trac WikiPage</a><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/markemer" target="_blank">GitHub Profile</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 11:26 AM Mark Anderson <<a href="mailto:mark@macports.org">mark@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>—Mark<br></div><div>_______________________<br>Mark E. Anderson <<a href="mailto:mark@macports.org" target="_blank">mark@macports.org</a>><br></div><div><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark" target="_blank">MacPorts Trac WikiPage</a><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/markemer" target="_blank">GitHub Profile</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:22 AM Daniel J. Luke <<a href="mailto:dluke@geeklair.net" target="_blank">dluke@geeklair.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Nov 14, 2023, at 10:04 PM, Alexander Newman via macports-users <<a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org" target="_blank">macports-users@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> 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?<br>
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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).<br>
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