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Discussion on: The M1 Mac - Is it worth it for devs?

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vexonius

Our mobile team switched from late 2017 macbook pros to M1 powered ones. Xcode clean builds improved from 6 min average to under 2 min. So if you're doing native, it's worth it!

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Alexandru-Dan Pop

That is a huge gain indeed. Thanks for the feedback.

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fatemehmarzoughi

I have started working with react native and my OS is windows10 and for running react native for ios i need a mac OS hence I want to buy an apple m1 macbook, but i have heard that it is not supporting react native and watchman etc ... . is that right? Could you please give me a solution for this?