Re: Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

I upgraded from a 2011 27” iMac running El Cap to an M2Pro Mini (16MB, external 2TB SSD) earlier this year. Since I don’t do any work requiring a high-end monitor I use two 27” BenQ 4k monitors, which are working very nicely. Most of the ports I have installed are simple tools used from the co

Re: Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

> 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

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

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

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 > Silicon Hardware an

Re: Apple Silicon Hardware and MacPorts

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