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This is pretty minor. The area I have noticed a real performance difference between Intel and Apple silicon is the macOS activity monitor. On Intel machines it populates immediately when you switch between cpu/memory/energy. On m1 machines there’s a noticeable lag.

Like I said, it’s pretty minor but when I’m going into activity monitor it’s to check a process and the performance delay feels bigger than it actually is.




I doubt that's anything to do with the CPU... on my Intel MacBook Pro the Activity Monitor also lags about 5s before showing the stats.


That's because it only polls every 5 seconds by default. You can reduce that to 1 or 2 seconds in View > Update Frequency on the menubar.




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