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AnandTech Calls Apple's Fastest CPU Core Claim for M1 'Extremely Plausible'
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No - the takeaway here is that Intel and AMD have been intentionally pushing out underperforming CPUs since forever. They're in this business for the long haul and are only going to dole out incremental improvements to keep a future pipeline open.
While the M1 may blow the doors off of currently available low power Intel chips now, you can bet your apple fritters that APL will do the exact same thing from here on out -- incremental upgrades.
While the M1 may blow the doors off of currently available low power Intel chips now, you can bet your apple fritters that APL will do the exact same thing from here on out -- incremental upgrades.
Not seeing that on the A Series chips though.
Yeah, me too.
Show me an operation, I don't know, a video-rendering with some aded effects/transtition, maybe blur a 36 MPix photo etc.
Side by side on Intel and on Apple Silicon.
Than we can talk.
Point 1. I do pretty serious Photoshop (affinity) work on my ipad. That has considerably less ram.
Point 2. THESE ARE BASE MODELS. It’s shocking to read all these comments where everyone seems to have missed this rather important concept.
This article by Larry Jordan - https://larryjordan.com/blog/perfection-is-the-enemy-of-the-good/ - does a good job of bringing some perspective to what is actually needed in terms of DRAM and storage speed for editing, at least in FCP X, which should generally apply to most applications in the same realm. There is a law of diminishing returns adding DRAM and 32GB seems to be it according to the article and several others he’s written on the subject. I currently have 64GB in my 2019 iMac, but that being said, I can probably do just as well with 32GB or even 16GB. It’s psychological as much as anything, because so many people here in these forums think more is better, when more is just more.
But that's what benchmarks do. They perform renderings/calculations/data processing on fixed data sets and measure the time needed.
That the base model comes with 8GB is fine.
That you can get more for an additional cost is ok.
That there is a limit of 16GB is what is bugging people.
Especially on the "Pro" book.
Said the person who bought a Mac to run Windows because PCs are almost all crap instead of buying a Mac to run macOS.
Because of the M1 or because of Adobe’s **** code and 30 years of cruft that gets Band Aids and duct tape instead of proper updating and refactoring?
You can scream all you want, but logic, reasoning and critical thinking skills are incredibly lacking in these forums.
You mean entry level machines? I can see that for the Air and Mini, but not for the MacBook Pro, which should be - according to Apple's own classification - a pro machine.
The Intel vs. Apple graph reminds me of the updates from 386 to 486 to Pentium etc. Those were the days! I hope Apple can keep up these large generational improvements.
They have released a lot of failed products, but did this water cooled thing is before my time. I guess it was also the reason they shifted over to Intel, because the PowerPC chips had become power inefficient. Now we are switching to Apple Silicon because Intel became power inefficient!
But it's really replacing the old base model MacBook Pro 13" that was also limited to 16 GB of RAM. That also only had 2 ports (that's another thing I keep hearing/seeing). If the higher end Pros are limited to 16 down from 32, that's more of an issue.
Just as an aside, I run FCPX and Logic X along with Affinity suite in my 2013 Fusion drive 16GB RAM and have the odd issue (especially rendering and playback in Motion) but nothing I can't live with. This is for professional design, editing and some mastering, albeit only as part of my work (e.g. I don't do this all day every day - would be very different computing needs if I did!) I'd imagine given even my use even the new Mac Mini (with 16GB RAM upgrade) would be fast enough. Everyone has different needs and perceptions mind you, so not a dig at anyone who feels they need more RAM / power. Just my experience!
Sounds fantastic, but I'm holding off for the pro version.
Apples labelling of such machines is a different conversation. This new model replace the entry version of the macbook pro 13“, the one that was limited to 16gb ram already, the one with two port. People are losing their s**t and they have no idea whats going on.
Watch a 4K YouTube video in Chrome to blast it clean!!! The fan will spin like crazy...
Well, it _is_ replacing the low end MBP - like mine - with 2 Thunderbolt ports, which is a pro only in name...
...and still: The new one should be able to carry quite a workload, by the looks of it (and by "it" I mean yesterday's event presentation).
Why are you so upset, nothing to see?
Obviously you don’t get it and will complain about anything and everything,
I feel bad for you