What would you use it for? I have had it on my last 3 Windows laptops and have never used it.bring on the touch screen macbooks!!!!!!!!
What would you use it for? I have had it on my last 3 Windows laptops and have never used it.bring on the touch screen macbooks!!!!!!!!
And why not - My Windows Gaming Rig
If bezels = good speakers, I'm all for bezels.There are a few big issues. First the Air is throttled after a short period of time so it isn't as powerful as the MBP due to lack of a fan. The MBP has the dreaded and derided Touchbar for which most people find it horrendous. The Mini isn't portable so you can't use it on the go. All of the laptops have chunky bezels from the 1990s.
So each is neutered in some way or another.
Swiping photos, zooming, etcWhat would you use it for? I have had it on my last 3 Windows laptops and have never used it.
throttled equals 5% degradation in performance, that's it.Damn, I have an MBA on order. And now you're telling me it's going to be hobbled discovering the next prime number. Thanks a lot Tim Cook! Wah...
If bezels = good speakers, I'm all for bezels.
And Touch Bar is better than no Touch Bar.
I find the mouse plenty for that. But interesting to hear that some prefer a touchscreen.Swiping photos, zooming, etc
yes my work computer has touch.
Apple will do it better
The 15” MBP has been discontinued, it’s 16” now. Unless you think Apple will make a 15” Air (they won’t). The 13” MBP has been rumored for many months to be upgraded to 14”.If anything, the 15 inch is what I would want.. not some stupid POC 13 inch where I can't see a damn thing on it.
Now? For years, because it works. Weird facial expression and dumb hand pose equals (a lot) more clicks 🤷♂️OMG DAN MAKING THAT POSE IN THE VIDEO THUMBNAIL AGAIN (just like in these last review videos)
Why do EVERYONE make these stupid pointing poses on youtube thumbnails now
I have an iMac (2019) and MacBook Pro (2015) for work and an iPad Pro (2019) for fun. The iPad has some great features and as far as Adobe and Microsoft applications are considered, it's a toy compared to the Macs.What does the air offer over an iPad (iPad Pro?); or have iPad‘s suddenly become not good enough for “95% what people use a computer for”. What can you do on an Air that you wouldn’t / couldn’t do on an iPad? I appreciate there will be very specific use cases, but for general email, office work, browsing and consumption, what is the appeal of the air?
Well, it's a test of peak performance. Bursty loads exist too. I'd just rather see both the benchmarks if there's going to be an article rounding them all up. And acoustics and other user experience things require trying it yourself.Correct.
In a nutshell, this is why the PC guys ignore Geekbench. The Geekbench test duration is laughably short.
Also, there is no measurement of acoustics. The user experience isn't just a bench score from a pitifully short test.
This is simply bad testing methodology.
Can they? I'm no expert, but with Xeons the norm was 1-4 CPUs per machine, 8 in extreme cases, so I think the cross-connections are too difficult. On top of that, the M1 has on-chip RAM, which may be harder to share across CPUs. My guess was 1, 2, or maaaybe 4 in a Mac Pro, with each being significantly faster than the ones in the Air. Either way, exciting.After a week of using M1 went back to my Windows gaming notebook but it felt primitive and slow. Look for the most powerful Macs to run multiple M1 processors. Think about future Mac Pros running ten M1 SOC's.
I purchased the M1 MacBook Pro, assuming that the fan would allow for better performance under sustained workloads. In the (almost) week that I have been using it, the fan has not come on once (as far as I have been able to discern).There are a few big issues. First the Air is throttled after a short period of time so it isn't as powerful as the MBP due to lack of a fan. The MBP has the dreaded and derided Touchbar for which most people find it horrendous. The Mini isn't portable so you can't use it on the go. All of the laptops have chunky bezels from the 1990s.
So each is neutered in some way or another.
I really think that our attitudes to RAM has been shaped by general purpose computing - get as much as you can because you’re going to need it. I paid for 16GB MacBook Pro M1 because it was the most RAM I could get, but I honestly think that 8GB would have been fine. Apple has produced a more complete product with the M1, rather than assembling a bunch of components, and the planned optimisation really seems to have made a huge difference. It would be interesting to see if Windows 10 was able to perform so well on the same hardware. My feeing is that there would be performance gain, but not as much as macOS and M1 apps have been able to achieve.Swapped out my Intel Mini to an M1. Got the 8GB of RAM because the shipping time for 16GB pushed it into mid-December, and delayed gratification is not ideal in CoVID times lol Haven't had any issues with the RAM, or speed, or anything, really.
I use my Mini primarily as a home server for Plex, and transferring the folder with all the metadata from the Time Machine back up, with all 17k individual files and 20GB of space, took me about 30 minutes. For comparison, last time I did this into the Intel Mini, it took me an hour and a half.
It's truly a fantastic update.
There’s a long way to go increasing core count—16? 24? 32? 64?—before multi-CPUs would be considered, I think.Can they? I'm no expert, but with Xeons the norm was 1-4 CPUs per machine, 8 in extreme cases, so I think the cross-connections are too difficult. On top of that, the M1 has on-chip RAM, which may be harder to share across CPUs. My guess was 1, 2, or maaaybe 4 in a Mac Pro, with each being significantly faster than the ones in the Air. Either way, exciting.