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One of these is slow and constantly has its fan running. The other doesn't have a fan :)
The M1 Air is silently encoding a video with ffmpeg compiled for x86_64 (under Rosetta) at 1.8x while the Intel Air is doing the same with a native binary at only ~1x (with its fan screaming)
I wonder how fast a natively compiled/optimized ffmpeg would run...
Come on, Apple. The drives in your laptops haven't ever looked like this but it's still the default icon.