Changing to Arm doesn’t make them any more non-upgradeable than they already are.
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Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac in Single Core Benchmark
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Changing to Arm doesn’t make them any more non-upgradeable than they already are.
I hope the CEO of Intel threw up when they read this. Hopefully this is enough to get Intel from continually sandbagging. Very exciting time in processors, this is going to push things ahead by leaps and bounds.
I absolutely love that an M1 processor absolutely rekt an i9... hilarious really. One of the greater things not even mentioned much is the graphics performance improvement over Intel's Iris garbage. I'm waiting to see the 4k/HEVC encoding/decoding performance on the processor side and the 3d performance on the graphics side. Gaming might even come back to macs... long shot but maybe.
I absolutely love that an M1 processor absolutely rekt an i9... hilarious really. One of the greater things not even mentioned much is the graphics performance improvement over Intel's Iris garbage. I'm waiting to see the 4k/HEVC encoding/decoding performance on the processor side and the 3d performance on the graphics side. Gaming might even come back to macs... long shot but maybe.
In this “interview”, Craig Federighi is adamant about touch not comjngMacs.
“I gotta tell you when we released Big Sur, and these articles started coming out saying, ‘Oh my God, look, Apple is preparing for touch’. I was thinking like, ‘Whoa, why?’”
“We had designed and evolved the look for macOS in a way that felt most comfortable and natural to us, not remotely considering something about touch.”
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I saw a similar video, iphone vs imac and was insane.
granted, im not an expert, so only went with the overall result.
these chips seems to be as good as they claimed, but still waiting on real reviews.
This was my first thought as well when Apple announced the M1. It makes perfect sense.
Mine left Alaska at 2:30 this afternoon, UPS says I should receive it tomorrow in the afternoon.
It is pretty insane how powerful the A14 is in a low power package. I am really looking forward to seeing the reviews of the new 2020 MacBook Air.
It doesn't mean that at all with respect to Apple's transitioning from Intel CPUs.
“By generation two of the ARM era, I believe you will see the full benefits of the switch, with ARM Macs achieving 120% performance on integer code with maybe 80% of the power consumption.”In september 2014 I started making predictions about Mac’s moving to Arm, and why they would perform better.
So, yes, I knew for more than a year.
And I didn’t “hand wave.” You made the outrageous argument that what Apple is doing is outside the mainstream of CPU architecture. Your burden to explain why. And saying “the ram is on the chip” when that isn’t even true doesn’t help your arguments.
I named chips that do have the features you mentioned. I don’t understand how that is “hand waving.”
The fact is, everything Apple is known to be doing is stuff that is in the standard CPU designer’s toolbox, and stuff that you’d find in Hennessy and Patterson. Nothing outrageous.
The reason it is so fast is that they are using the same things we did at AMD to design x86’s, but doing it for a much cleaner RISC architecture.
Oh boy were you wrong.
They did better than that in generation one.But other than that, incredibly prescient.
If I recall correctly, the idea was to make the computer to be as easy to use as an appliance.
which was a good plan, given how hard it was for non techie people on those days to use a home computer.
Under Tim Cooks, is just overpriced disposable appliances.
The A4 was first launched in the first iPad in 2010 and was discontinued in 2013.
Apple A4 - Wikipedia
Steve jobs never wanted macs to be user-upgradeable or serviceable.
Folklore.org: Diagnostic Port
I still have a 2015 13" MacBook Pro and 2015 27" iMac running the latest macOS and working quite well. So I don't view them as disposable appliances. The same is true for the 2015 iPone 6S+ I still use. Lasted me 5 years and will be replaced this year with a iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Oh well, a true d*ck, as I remember.Steve jobs never wanted macs to be user-upgradeable or serviceable.
Folklore.org: Diagnostic Port
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a shame that his mentality not only prevailed, but still enforced and defended by the cult members.
You missed the point.
those devices can be upgraded and repaired by you, if you want.
current ones? Not so much.
There is a certain logic to it. and for people who really value slots and sockets and the like, there are plenty of other choices.
Seems the question would be were these folk running this software on their MacBook Airs, entry-level MacBook Pros or Mac Minis in the first place?
If not, then what are we even arguing about in this forum? Other than the Mac Mini, the computers that the M1 is in maxed out at 16 gb even as Intel versions!
There is a small percentage of customers that are concerned about upgrading the hardware of their Apple computers.
The way I see it, it’s not much different. Jobs was so against the original Mac having even any expansion slots originally. As I see it, the current Apple is just extending that vision, of course, to the annoyance of some. I myself am annoyed. I can understand laptops being less user upgradeable due to its form factor. But I’m really annoyed when Apple made it so difficult for users to upgrade the RAM and drive on desktops like the Mac mini.
As an elementary school teacher this is great news for me. I use Office, Google Docs and Zoom. My only wish is to have a 15” Air as I’ve found that with distance learning from m getting more eye strain with my 2017 MacBook Air. A viable solution would probably be to get a Mini with a decent 20+ inch monitor. Or perhaps wait for the updated iMacs.
No matter how many times it gets said, people still don’t get it.