Which specific apps are you finding give you this behavior?
The M1 SSD is super slow. I don't know how anyone ever accomplishes anything at all with these things.
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Yes, I'm being sarcastic.
Result is from just now on my M1 MBP w/ 1TB SSD.
Benchmarks measure sustained reads/writes, and every SSD reaches it's max speeds when doing sustained tasks. Every SSD is a lot slower doing any bursty read/writing hence why a lot of real world tasks will make it 'slower' as it's doing quick bursty reads/writes. That being said, real world tasks that involve sustained reading/writing will reach the speeds that benchmarks reach.
We were/are talking hardware. That IS the speed of the SSD, and speaks to the quality of the SSD used. Without getting into silly arguments about launch times/etc. (I find my own to be blazingly fast), anything beyond that is a function of the OS and software that may (or may not) be updated in. the future, but the hardware speed of the SSD stands.
Remind me again which M1 model you own that you're drawing on for this observation?
Whatever!
Maybe yours has a hardware problem or a virus! I've used Macs professionally since 2011, and I have 5 of them today (only 1 is an M1). If you want to talk "real world/user experience", I use mine intensely for business upwards of 12 hours/day. The M1 Air is my daily driver an is BY FAR the fastest, smoothest, and most responsive Mac I've ever used. The other 4 are gathering dust. So to each his/her own! (And, to repeat, you get this for LESS than the cost of 2 Starbucks/week [for those who choose to assume it will die in 3 years]). If it dies in 3 years (it won't), I will give it a good funeral! ;-)
Well I upgraded to this 8/256 m1 MBP from a 16GB intel MBP (which I had to get as my previous 8GB MBP before that was constant beachballs and freezing) and it handles the exact same workflow as good or better than that one ever did.
I’m pretty sure what you’re referring to is Rosetta 2 doing it’s job and translating the x86 code of an Intel Mac app so that it can run on Apple ARM architecture. This was a given from the very first day M1 released - this is a whole architectural change and the reason why Apple is the first in the history of computing to be this successful with transitioning to a new architecture is because of how difficult it truly is.
Lots of posts already in this thread regarding Lightroom.
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Even though I'm heavy user of LR and PS on PC, I'm using it very light on M1, waiting for update to reduce swap. But I can tell you that I tried with reduced performance by changing GPU to Basic (or just preview). With PS, one edit from 24MP raw of D750 is writing around 2GB, which is not that bad.
1.03 TB for 8 hr in a month? I think that is the lowest we have seen. Even if we go with the 600 TB from the bank's numbers (which is unusually low and them using the mac in a way it wasn't intend to be used) that works out to 600 months or 50 years. And before we get the whole "it may not be linear" rebuttal the 2014 The SSD Endurance Experiment: They’re all dead test shows, with one exception, totally linear graphs of TB usage. And that one exception had a weird huccup that caused it to last longer than the up to then linear results indicated.
After a full 24 hrs, writings from swapping are just at 30Gb mark... that's a success, comparing to past versions.
Also, I've noticed improvements in the memory usage efficiency - swapping doesn't start until higher memory pressure with lower amount free memory, and swap file size gets decreased faster than before.
So, looks like after months of complaints, someone finally cared at Apple and fixed a glaring bug in paging/swapping algorithm ... and even tweaked memory pressure parameters as a bonus. Fingers crossed
That strangeness is what makes me think this is not entirely an Apple problem but some weird combination of Apple and third party software causing the excessive writes some people are seeing. 4.3 TBW over 5 months works out to 0.86 TB per month which is even lower than Sysnet's 1.03 TB for 8 hr/day in a month which going off the only failure rate we have (a bank doing something IMHO totally inapproperate to these macs) was 600 TBW. Your numberd work out to slighly more than 697 months or 58 years.
Sincerely, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Keep in mind you have 16GB while most people will have 8GB, so your swapping should be a lot less frequent by default, hence why you have lower writes by default.
but at the very beginning my writes were crazy indeed.
Keep in mind that macOS regularly checks every app's integrity via syspolicyd and against Apple's servers. That was an issue since Catalina and heavily slowed down app launches (can be disabled - at least on Intel, not 100% sure about M1) compared to Mojave and before.