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Comment by dzhiurgis | Hacker News Reader

I’ve always said they need to separate dev from creative machines. For most devs keyboard is way more important than gpu or display color accuracy.

Maybe that could be the differentiator for Apple Silicon. Keep x86 for devs who need compatibility. Creatives who need compute. Or they could just keep pushing iPad as creatives device even further...

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I'd argue if a "dev" doesn't need more compute than a "creative", he or she is doing obsolete work.

I have the impression that a dev workflow resembles: 1. Editing code locally 2. Running expensive computation on a remote compute/database server

Creatives need to edit massive complex files with sophisticated real-time simulation of their contents.

Devs are editing text files...

I’m guessing you don’t work in a compiled language...

Lemme know languages compile on a GPU

Strange comment if you've ever worked in either role. I need a much more powerful computer to render a video or voxel than I do to build an entire SaaS application.

Yeah who needs functional base system libraries when you could be working on MACHINE LEARNING instead

Grow up

A computer is for computing. If you don't have demanding computations to run, you are most likely waisting the potential of your machine(s), and not pushing your art to the limit. If you don't do that, you are obsolete. Who said anything about MACHINE LEARNING?

Why are you typing this message on your computer or phone? You are not maxing the CPU and drive out to 100%.

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