Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4 Termination Signal: Illegal instruction: 4 I wish can return this laptop back to them as its no use for me. I have spent countless hours to fix the problem but look like Apple Rosetta 2 has some issue and allowing visual studio app to run. I have sent almost $3000 dollar to buy this customized Apple Big Sur laptop with M1 chip on it. If you are willing to run Microsoft softwares for example Visual Studio. If you can live with early adopter inconveniences then get M1. Microsoft is also pushing toward ARM Windows 10 so we may see big adoption in next few years. This may also affect your ability to analyse dumps from live server making live debugging more difficult (this can always be solved with getting another dedicated x86 machine in cloud I guess).Ĭommon sense says it is probably more future proof to get M1 instead of Intel which is going away. Some code may work quickly on your laptop and slow on AWS/Azure or wherever you deploy and vice versa. Most importantly your software performance and memory profile may wary.

Microsoft had to adjust its Office suite to work properly on Rosetta2, you will most likely need to live with glitches while working on your software. You should generally expect compatibility issues with existing software. One take away is some software will run much quicker, some much slower. Latest MBP 16 (9750H) in Geekbench gets 1000-1100 in single coreĪpple Silicon gets 800-1700 in single core net core you'll likely be reliant on emulation for foreseeable future.

This means you'll rely on its quality, original Rosetta was infamous for how bad it was, this one is integrated directly in M1 chip so 'should be better'. Apple Silicon has Rosetta 2 translation which is what you'll be using 99% of time for next few years.

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