The Apple Silicon version is much better when running on an M1 Max, fans take a fair while to spin up and dont spin as high as the old build, generally feels more responsive on bigger factories too.

I am very interested what Apple Metal could do to further boost performance and whether this is on ...

Brbrmensch try this: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/QuickbarTemplates

After using the new quickbar since release in the experimental branch and doing my best to like it i still even now find myself hopping into inventory a hell of a lot more than i used to.

Would be great to add an "Auto" row alongside the quickbar row numbers to auto assign based on usage.

I would ...

I wanted to chime in and say that i tried to use 0.17 quickbar but even after a fair few weeks i'm finding myself using the regular inventory over the quickbar or that the quickbar is empty.

Perhaps there can be an option to autofill the quick bar like 0.16?