Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro Review: This Changes Everything(petapixel.com) |
Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro Review: This Changes Everything(petapixel.com) |
* The comparably priced Dell XPS 17 actually wins in most benchmarks (but the M1 is using Rosetta 2 translation for each of these!)
* The battery life is really amazing.
* The lack of cooling necessary is amazing.
* Software compatibility with ARM through Rosetta 2 is mind-blowing. No one expected it to work this well.
* Don't buy Intel-based Macs any more!
* If you want a high-powered 13" Macbook, this is it.
* If you want larger than 13" or more than 2 Thunderbolt (USB4) ports, hold onto your butts!
Comparison with xps13 would make more sense.
I found this episode more interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMTfPSzrjXs
That said, we already have had plenty of these comparisons done, I don't think there is anything revolutionary here, this is more an article targeted towards people who do a specific task (photography) than tech news in general.
For example, a large java app's test suite takes ~7 mins on the 2017 MBP and ~3 mins on the M1 Air. I never thought an MBA could work for me day and day out, but here we are.
Point being: the air and the pro seem be converging to a single point and the air is already there.
Or a screen larger than 13"!
Not that the M1 MacBook Pro is available in larger than 13" either, but I'm holding out until the 16" arrives.
> As you can see, M1 Mac beats Intel Mac in every Lightroom benchmark across the board
Yeah, by a relatively small amount according to your own charts... It's still impressive, not exactly earth shattering.
I think Apple is a huge threat to general purpose computing freedom, and I refuse to use their products. But hats off to their M1!
I don't see how, unless you see literally all proprietary operating systems as such.
Remember, iOS <> MacOS.
The $2600 32GB 2TB Intel-based Macbook Pro 13" is only $300 more than the $2300 16GB 2TB M1-based Macbook Pro 13", though. If you could spec the M1 with 32GB, it would probably cost the same.
As pointed out, if you go with 1TB, you save $400. As per usual, the upgrade prices are (in my opinion) crazy!
Intel have managed to squeeze an incredible amount of performance out of their 14nm (+++...) but it's at a cost and that cost was power consumption, they had no other choice with their DOA 10nm (hyperbole for affect :)).
Basically the reason why Apple abandoned them.
Don't buy the pro, buy the air. The fan is a negative, not a positive, and the case is a lot more handy. Also, real buttons. I was one of the people who liked the touchbar, but I don't miss it at all
I will keep my cooling, thank you very much
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Or am I missing something? If this chip had more cores or was a variant with all 8 performance cores that would be a thing.
It took a lot of time to convince my girlfriend to finally switch to at least 14 inch, and she loves it (AMD Zen 2, so it's not 5nm tech of course)
But I also think it's a little short-sighted to predict the next 5 years based on the past 5 years. Intel's Tiger Lake is remarkably good, albeit limited by production capacity (tops out at 4 cores and not found in many products). As an indication of what Intel is capable of, if they start producing CPUs on better processes (before your 5 year prediction), they are very likely to regain the status of at least competitive.
Intel themselves have said that they'll do 7nm around 2022-2023 - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-delay-to-7...
5nm is probably going to be 2024-2025 at this cadence.
And true, Intel's 7nm process might be somewhat equivalent to TSMC's 5nm process as far as performance goes, but at that point in 2022 TSMC will be doing 3nm, according to them.
https://www.imore.com/tsmc-lands-first-3nm-contract-apple-co...
So at the start of 2023, Intel might be at 7nm where TSMC will be at 3nm.
* For CPU design it's AMD, Intel and ARM players (Apple, Samsung etc)
* For discrete GPU it's really AMD and Nvidia, Intel may be moving into discrete but have traditionally only delivered on within an integrated CPU/GPU package.
* For manufacturing it's Intel, Samsung, TSMC, Global Foundaries.
* And major node steppings at the moment are 14nm, 10nm, 7nm, 5nm, 3nm (there are some less "standard" steppings such as 12nm, 8nm etc. but it's worth noting that these are somewhat marketing monikers at this stage anyway).
And so to find references you can pretty much combine these aspects to come up with the various articles.
I personally love nerding out on chip technology, no major expert just find it interesting to follow.