Wish they'd do this for Apple OSes...
Squeeze out more performance and improve stability further but still end macOS security support nearly 120 months after release.
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Apple Says New MacBook Air Up to 23x Faster Than Intel-Based Model, But Read the Fine Print
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Squeeze out more performance and improve stability further but still end macOS security support nearly 120 months after release.
They still use "23x faster" instead of "23x as fast", which don't mean the same things.
I wonder why they don’t do benchmarking on Siri. Maybe it’s 4x dumber.
Meanwhile, my MacBook Pro i9 eats my M4 Pro mini for lunch in real world use.
Hey! Right now, we're all 23x faster and more energetic than Steve Jobs, George Washington and Pharaoh Ramses!
I fully agree with you. However, that is unlikely to happen while Tim Cook is CEO because his main focus is maximizing profits, not optimizing user experience. Cook realizes that many people falsely equate the increased amount of money Apple Inc. is valued at with increased user experience. Therefore, Cook knows he can get away with cutting corners on user experience to improve profit margins.
Well, Tim, I would hope your latest is significantly faster than a 5 year old system with half the memory... 
Don't worry, everyone, because I am able to OFFICIALLY CONFIRM that the ALL NEW M4 MacBook Air is over 100X faster than the Intel Core2Duo (Merom) MacBook Air (2008). This is the BEST, MOST POWERFUL MacBook Air that Apple has ever released and Apple thinks you're gonna love it!
Webpages are horrendous memory hogs. Launch a browser on any system and a common website and look at the memory usage rocket.
Sure, but I can natively boot Windows anytime I want on my Intel MBP
And older Intel Macs can still be used for most tasks that an average consumer would run
I still have a base model Mac mini bought in 2020 and it’s an i3 with 8 GB RAM.
Still running great for productivity and web browsing to this day.
I still have a base model Mac mini bought in 2020 and it’s an i3 with 8 GB RAM.
Still running great for productivity and web browsing to this day.
Snow Leopard is the Windows 7 of Mac operating systems.
Yikes, I better upgrade fast, I'm starting to fall behind.
The last intel MacBooks were sold in 2020. So Apple is comparing a new 2025 Air with a state of the art chip to an approximately 5 year old MacBook Air with an Intel processor that, a few months later when the M1 appeared, would be relegated to the dustbin of history for most Mac buyers.
Sure, most Mac users don’t upgrade every year so the year over year performance gain isn’t relevant to most prospective buyers. But how many of them are running MacBook Airs with Intel processors as their daily drivers? A few folks in this thread said they weee, and that’s great. But I’m guessing they’re in a tiny minority of Mac users.
I’m happy to be wrong, though. I love hearing about folks using their Macs for 5+ years. These machines are well built and the M series chips have long usable lives. I have an M1 MBA that can handle my daily workflow well. It’s nicer on my 15” M3 MBA, but the M1 is no slouch.
Sure, most Mac users don’t upgrade every year so the year over year performance gain isn’t relevant to most prospective buyers. But how many of them are running MacBook Airs with Intel processors as their daily drivers? A few folks in this thread said they weee, and that’s great. But I’m guessing they’re in a tiny minority of Mac users.
I’m happy to be wrong, though. I love hearing about folks using their Macs for 5+ years. These machines are well built and the M series chips have long usable lives. I have an M1 MBA that can handle my daily workflow well. It’s nicer on my 15” M3 MBA, but the M1 is no slouch.
It's widely regarded as the most stable mac os release of all time.
a lot of people (including me)... most people's upgrade cycle for computers is around 5-6 years or more. Even businesses have been moving to that length cycle.
It's also particularly timely because Apple is still fully supporting the last gen intel machines (2018 mini, 2019 mac pro, 2017 iMac Pro, 2019 iMac, 2018/2019/2020 macbook pros, and the 2020 air, which is this comparison), but are expected to drop support this year, so there'll likely be a wave of intel users switching later in the year.
I agree, Safari is the browser that never gives me issues at all. I would suggest that this user clear the Safari cache if they really have that issue.
