# 50 Shades of M1

URL: /show/coder-radio/395/
> Their lives change forever when they meet a handsome, tormented, laptop.

- Show: [Coder Radio](/show/coder-radio/)
- Episode: 395
- Date: 2021-01-06
- Hosts: chris, michael
- Duration: 00:51:11
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/b44de5fa-47c1-4e94-bf9e-c72f8d1c8f5d/d684621b-d143-4ca5-899c-d956ae166fa5.mp3
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/T0RoOr3cfQk



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### Episode Links

  * [Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends - plaintextaccounting.org](https://plaintextaccounting.org/ "Plain Text Accounting, a guide to Ledger and friends - plaintextaccounting.org") — Plain text accounting means doing accounting with plain text data formats and scriptable software, in the style of Ledger, hledger, beancount, and co. 
  * [Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files.](https://github.com/beancount/beancount "Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files.") — A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.
  * [Fava - web interface for Beancount](https://github.com/beancount/fava "Fava - web interface for Beancount") — Fava is a web interface for the double-entry bookkeeping software Beancount with a focus on features and usability.
  * [Michael Dominick on Twitter](https://twitter.com/dominucco/status/1345867506989359105 "Michael Dominick on Twitter") — Interesting! It looks like @jetbrains is already on the M1 train.
  * [Dell.com/linux](https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/overview/cp/linuxsystems "Dell.com/linux") — With Canonical and Red Hat certification, Dell validation, and factory install options, you can be assured that your system just works.
  * [Dell XPS 13 Laptop As Built for the Show](https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/new-xps-13-developer-edition/spd/xps-13-9310-laptop/ctox139w10p2c3000u?configurationid=45591da6-877d-48a2-bf0a-151202c712ac "Dell XPS 13 Laptop As Built for the Show") — + “Tiger Lake” 11th-gen CPU up to 4.2 GHz \+ Ubuntu Linux 20.04 \+ Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (more on this) \+ 16GB 4267MHz LPDDR4x Memory Onboard (Max of 32GB possible) \+ 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive (Max of 2TB Possible) \+ 1080p touch edge to edge infinity display (4k optional)
  * [XPS 13 vs ThinkPad X1 Carbon Machine Learning Benchmark](https://openbenchmarking.org/result/2101022-AS-2101015FI37 "XPS 13 vs ThinkPad X1 Carbon Machine Learning Benchmark")
  * [XPS 13 ML Base Benchmark - Compare your system to this one](https://openbenchmarking.org/result/2101015-FI-CODERRADI28 "XPS 13 ML Base Benchmark - Compare your system to this one") — Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the Phoronix Test Suite by running the command: phoronix-test-suite benchmark 2101015-FI-CODERRADI28
  * [Intel Xe Graphics' Incredible Performance Uplift From OpenCL To oneAPI Level Zero To Vulkan](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-xe-graphics&num=1 "Intel Xe Graphics' Incredible Performance Uplift From OpenCL To oneAPI Level Zero To Vulkan") — It's quite a straight-forward comparison with the Gen9/11/12 all using the Dell XPS of their time and running Ubuntu 20.10 with the above mentioned graphics driver stack configuration
  * [Intel's Iris Xe Graphics Preview: Is Real Gaming Power in Reach for Thin-and-Light Laptops?](https://www.pcmag.com/news/intels-iris-xe-graphics-preview-is-real-gaming-power-in-reach-for-thin "Intel's Iris Xe Graphics Preview: Is Real Gaming Power in Reach for Thin-and-Light Laptops?")
  * [Intel Xe Graphics: Puts its GPU Stakes in the Ground ](https://www.eetasia.com/intel-xe-graphics-puts-its-gpu-stakes-in-the-ground/ "Intel Xe Graphics: Puts its GPU Stakes in the Ground ")