No More Hustleporn: M1 MacBooks and Productivity

By Yiren Lu — Nov 9, 2021

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A credentialed gentleman of the information technology business sector. Staff Engineer @Reddit, previously Amazon, Intel.

We recently found that the new 2021 M1 MacBooks cut our Android build times in half.

So for a team of 9, $32k of laptops will actually save $100k in productivity over 2022. The break-even point happens at 3 months.

TL;DR Engineering hours are much more expensive than laptops!