As a very happy M1 Max user (should've shelled out for 64GB of RAM, though, for local LLMs!), I don't look forward to seeing how the Google Workspace/Notions/etc. of the world somehow reintroduce lag back in.
The problem for Intel and AMD is they are stuck with an OS that ships with a lag-inducing Anti-malware suite. I just did a simple git log and it took 2000% longer than usual because the Antivirus was triggered to scan and run a simulation on each machine instruction and byte of data accessed. The commit log window stayed blank waiting to load long enough for me to complete another tiny project. It always ruin my day.
Pro tip: turn off malware scanning in your git repos[0]. There is also the new Dev Drive feature in Windows 11 that makes it even easier for developers (and IT admins) to set this kind of thing up via policies[1].
In companies where I worked where the IT team rolled out "security" software to the Mac-based developers, their computers were not noticeably faster than Windows PCs at all, especially given the majority of containers are still linux/amd64, reflecting the actual deployment environment. Meanwhile Windows also runs on ARM anyway, so it's not really something useful to generalize about.
Unfortunately, the IT department people think they are literal GODs for knowing how to configure Domain Policies and lock down everything. They even refuse to help or even answer requests for help when there are false positives on our own software builds that we cannot unmark as false positives. These people are proactively antagonistic to productivity. Management could not careless…
Nobody wants to be resonsible for giving allowing exceptions in security-matters. Its far easier to ignore the problems at hand, then to risk being wrong just once.
They don't think they're gods, they just think you're an idiot. This is not to say that you are, or even that they believe YOU individually are an idiot, it's just that users are idiots.
There are also insurance, compliance, and other constraints that IT folks have that make them unwilling to turn off scanning for you.
To be fair, the average employee doesn’t have much more than idiot-level knowledge when it comes to security.
The majority of employees would rather turn off automatic OS updates simply because it’s a hassle to restart your computer because god forbid they you loose those 250 chrome tabs waiting for you to never get around to revisiting!
the short answer is that you can't without the necessary permissions, and even if you do - the next roll out will wipe out your changes.
So the pro-part of the tip does not apply.
On my own machines anti-virus is one the very first things to be removed. Most of the time I'd turn off all the swap file, yet Windows doesn't overcommit and certain applications are notorious for allocating memory w/o even using it.
Chrome managed it. Not sure how since Edge still works reasonably well and Safari is instant to start (even faster than system settings, which is really an indictment of SwiftUI).
