Regarding Justin Long, didn't like him then and certainly don't like him now. He is very offensive with his comedy. However, I do support fully Intel in its campaign against M1 because as always, just like PowerPC back in the days, Apple lies about its true performance. I stand with Intel on this one, but vehemently hate Justin Long.
Source please?
Regarding ASi/M1 performance Apple has been accused of being extremely vague and using unlabeled, “Bezos graphs”, but from what I’ve seen so far their claims have been confirmed by most reviewers.
Also, during the PowerPC days, my understanding – and experience! – was that they were at times right, with their “MHz Myth”, and other times would just ignore raw performance altogether, as PowerPC/IBM/Motorola and x86/Intel/AMD kept leapfrogging each other constantly.
I foresee that if Intel does manage to get itself out of the gutter and AMD doesn’t lose out to ARM chip designers/manufacturers as well in case those ever match Apple’s designs, we will eventually reach such a point againin the future (say, 5-10 years from now), but for now it’s safe to assume that much like they did with the OG iPhone before, Apple has just secured a 5-year technological advantage.
What Apple critics seem to forget is that the M1, a chip barely beefier than those found on *iPads*, is being favourably compared to desktop- and server-grade hardware. I know that performance doesn’t scale linearly, but it’s patently obvious that if you stick a serious cooling block to an ASi chip and power it with a regular desktop PSU (and not that ridiculous thing found inside the Mac Mini, which, incidentally and funnily enough, is indeed overkill for the M1 itself and was just kept to ensure that said new SKU and the parts inside were as similar to the Intel ones as possible), you will get insane levels of performance at an absurdly low price.
What’s more: Apple could likely get away with overclocking – or just regularly clocking it, what do I know? – the crap out of an M1, but we all know that is *not* what they will be doing. An M1X/M2 in an iMac or mini Mac Pro will likely put any Threadripper or reheated Intel 14 nm+++++++++++++++++++ CPU to shame in the real world, professional market, even if you can theoretically eke out more performance out of the latter by liquid cooling them and/or selling your firstborn just to be able to afford them.
