If you have a computer that runs darktable (and everything else) fine enough now, why not keep using it? (I’m sure the M1s are certainly still fast and great, regardless.) I’m fairly certain part of the speed bump of the ARM-based Macs is almost certainly due to them being compared to their older Intel counterparts.
Intel Macs have been known for being slow and have lagged behind with speed improvements over the past several years. Sometimes they don’t even work in the x86 translation mode (Rosetta 2). Other software (generally pro apps, including the proprietary ones from Adobe) also have problems. Dual booting makes sense, when it works… and it won’t really work well for some time.) However, buying a Mac for 2× the price of a similar non-Mac just to run Linux is a bit weird. (Native hardweare support is a important point for some, but not for everyone. Of course, Linux (aarch64) works fine in a VM, but it’s not the same as running natively on the hardware. If you want good graphics, battery life, wifi, etc.
However, these ports are far from useful and this will be the case for some time (unless you want command line only, with limited hardware support). As of Apple’s latest release, they now allow for booting alternative kernels and people have first-pass Linux ports already. Linux isn’t directly installable on an M1 in a meaningful way yet.
Hopefully people buy hardware with the expectation to use it for several years, certainly, but the fact that we’re all at home next to plugs nearly 24/7 means that it’s currently easier to wait to buy things with better battery life than what we currently have. And the pandemic will most likely last for much of 2021 (if not a bit longer).
With rare exceptions, nobody should be traveling (even short distances to coffee shops) in this pandemic. (That said, they seem to have done a good job this time around.) I’ve been burned by this before in the past, by first big revisions of MBPs and also the iPad 1.īattery life doesn’t really matter for the next year or so. First gen products from Apple are nearly always replaced with limited support later on compared to following generations of the product. Counterpoints to getting the M1 right now (which may help you wait a bit longer, if you do indeed go for it):
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