Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

[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 not enough on the M3 - don't get
that one, but 24 should have you zooming along nicely.

—Mark
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On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 12:22 AM Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:

> On Nov 14, 2023, at 10:04 PM, Alexander Newman via macports-users <
> macports-users at 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
>
>
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