1149 EUR in my country. It is discounted from 1299 EUR. New M1 Macbook Air is still not available.
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Apple Silicon M1 Chip in MacBook Air Outperforms High-End 16-Inch MacBook Pro
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These M1 chips have incredible performance, but the integrated GPU won’t really be able to be used fully to play the best games as you need to be able to boot camp into windows which can’t be done on apple silicon macs. Then like you said for the big AAA games like CoD you need AMD or nvidia GPU’s, so to play these types of games you still need an Intel based Mac with a Vega card at least.
Same here. Recently acquiring 16-core 2019 cheese grater, so I won't getting any newer Mac soon, but I keep in eye for M1 advancement.
Also shame, if M1 has to be that speedy, I still can’t running Solidworks on it, hence my choice still with x86. After all my Solidworks license almost cost one unit of my tower workstation...so I am only buying a computer if can run Solidworks. In my position, software dictates the hardware I am choosing on.
What are your guesses about the upgrade cycle of Apple Silicon Macs? Are we going to see a yearly upgrade like iphone?
Whether you take it at face value or consider some of the caveats around Rosetta, thermals etc, that's a pretty amazing score meaning most people can buy any of the new laptops and not be concerned about performance. When combined with the battery life increase, its pretty mind blowing.
Arguably the biggest leap in performance of the last decade
except they don't. system memory is in the M1 SOC. weren't you paying attention?
This makes the MacBook Air faster than my 13" 2019 MacBook Pro 
If this is the low end machines, i wonder how much faster the 16" MacBook Pro will be next year? Also this new MacBook Air is great value for money starting at £999 and having great specs like that.
If this is the low end machines, i wonder how much faster the 16" MacBook Pro will be next year? Also this new MacBook Air is great value for money starting at £999 and having great specs like that.
Not quite ready to buy at the mo’ but when I am it will probably be a mini to replace my trashcan (am retired so no real need for a Mac Pro as a replacement) - this M1 malarkey has me excited enough to make a first post.
What I would really love to see is an Apple monitor or monitors to make more of a match to the mini (the XDR is a ludicrous price mismatch starting at 5.5k British Pounds).
An exciting time to be a Mac user.
What I would really love to see is an Apple monitor or monitors to make more of a match to the mini (the XDR is a ludicrous price mismatch starting at 5.5k British Pounds).
An exciting time to be a Mac user.
The A14 even outperformed Intel’s i7 in the MacBook Pro. It’s no surprise that the M1 is outperforming the i7. Even AMD is ahead of the game with their APUs over Intel at this point. Intel will need to step up their design at this point in order to either go with more power to specialize into desktop machines/servers or to come up with a more power-efficient design to rival its competitors. Apple’s design will get exponentially better over the short term but will butt up to cost issues once the memory needs outweighs the performance.
I jumped on the Intel bandwagon, right away. Struggling through app compatibility was a major pain. I'm actually glad I got the 16" in 2019 and a 2020 13" 10th Gen MPB, so recently. It means I can let everyone else beta test the new Apple Silicon chips over the next few years and jump in the game by 2nd or 3rd Gen., when they finally get around to redesigning the cases. We'll also have a much better idea of what the entire product line will look like in terms of features and performance.
Personally, if your computer isn't too slow for what you need it to do, waiting is the best option. Lots of new technologies like MiniLED screens, 14" MBP form-factor, etc to look forward to. I'd also expect another "Macbook Air-esque" release where Apple, again, redefines what a thin and light Pro-end laptop looks like.
Personally, if your computer isn't too slow for what you need it to do, waiting is the best option. Lots of new technologies like MiniLED screens, 14" MBP form-factor, etc to look forward to. I'd also expect another "Macbook Air-esque" release where Apple, again, redefines what a thin and light Pro-end laptop looks like.
Agreed, the only downer for me is the 400nits peak brightness. I wish it was 500 like the ProThis makes the MacBook Air faster than my 13" 2019 MacBook Pro
If this is the low end machines, i wonder how much faster the 16" MacBook Pro will be next year? Also this new MacBook Air is great value for money starting at £999 and having great specs like that.
to those who are struggling to believe ARM can possibly compete in the desktop space - just remember ARM started out as a desktop chip in the old British Acorn PCs
Just because intel instruction set has dominated general purpose computing over the last few centuries does not mean it is inherently better, particularly in 2020
Just because intel instruction set has dominated general purpose computing over the last few centuries does not mean it is inherently better, particularly in 2020
For the Air? Inability to run Windows. No cooling so performance degrades with heavy sustained CPU demand, closed world architecture, need to run Rosetta on (some/a lot of) apps. Did I mention it can't run a VM of Windows?
I'm answering the question of what reviewers will point out as a downside. The lack of Windows VM capability RIGHT NOW will be highlighted over and over. In addition, the inability to add memory or internal peripherals will be pointed out by all WIntel manufacturers. How serious or true those purported downsides are I don't know, but I think the initial criticisms are pretty obvious even if they aren't in reality that much of a downside. Most lower end computers aren't upgradable no matter what the chip or OS is.
If this one doesn't make what else will!?
I'm using my late 2016 MacBook Pro as a Desktop, but the new M1 MacBook Air will be 3x(SC) and 5x(MC) faster than it.
I waiting for the first reviews and then be off running to grab one.
But you can ARM Windows and eventually that will also support x64 App emulation. We don't know how that performs yet. But I'v got the feeling that I might be better than running Windows native on an Intel MacBook.
Quite a lot of the applications people run today on Intel macs can be easily ported to M1, sometimes with just a recompile. Most developers will have universal binaries for Intel/ARM with their updates to macOS 11.
And for the big players like Adobe and Microsoft, rest assured that they had access to the new platform for a while now and will also bring their products to the new Macs.
And if it's not clear from the benchmarks, the M1 used in Macs not like the cheap low end ARM processors used in Chromebooks.
If you haven’t already, check out Anandtech’s initial assessment of the M1. It’s not a deep dive yet but gives good evidence to support Apple’s claims about performance.
Here’s an interesting chart: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/perf-trajectory.png
And the full article: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive
My guess is that it's going to be closer to the iPad - every 1.5 to 2 years. Macs are popular, but they don't sell anywhere near the volume of the iPhone to justify such a rapid upgrade cycle, and people expect to be able to hold on to their Macs for anywhere from 3-7 years on average, so it's probably not sustainable for Apple to keep updating the Mac every year.
Assuming Apple silicon lives up to the hype, the reality is that even a 2-year-old AS Mac is still going to be faster and have longer battery life than the latest intel chips on the market anyways.
Am I the only person to buy a Mac because I want to run macOS on it?
I couldn't really care less if my Mac runs Windows or not.
In the 25+ years I worked on Apple hardware, there was never a Windows installation on it in some form.