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Five Years of Apple Silicon: M1 to M5 Performance Comparison
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There's one issue that's been reported online and something that I've experienced myself several times. The system runs out of memory when left in Sleep mode. All apps get paused. Some people have even reported this issue during their workday, but I haven't had that happen; only during overnight Sleep. Need to quit all apps and/or reboot the machine to return to a normal state. Apple has not acknowledged this issue yet, and I don't know if it was resolved in the most recent update, as I've been very careful about how I leave the machine at night.
Apple has proven to overcome challenges several times, so I'd have no doubt that they would have found a way to exist if Apple silicon didn't exist. Lots of advances in competing platforms, or were those advances in response to Apple's own efforts with silicon? One must wonder...
This is why I replace my devices after the final macOS, iPadOS and watchOS Security Update.
Thank you - that's interesting and good to know. I think I will wait to update for the time being.
Yeah perhaps, but it's the foundation to EVERYTHING they make today other than services. It's not just a differentiator, it makes their products undeniably better than everything else on the market until everyone catches up a year later.
I honestly doubt Apple would be relevant today much less a Mag Seven company. Apple Silicon gives them a true moat, for devices and everything they make. Which is why I think it is foolish when people regurgitate the "Apple is behind in AI" nonsense. No one is behind in Ai, the race has not even begun. And it's like Apple have their own Nvidia in their back pocket, because today's LLM's are just beta software in the DOS, or basic stages of development, and with the open source nature of LLMs today, anyone, such as Deep Seek in China or anyone who really wants to have jump right in, they can. Nvidia doesn't need an LLM to be the biggest player in AI, likewise with Apple Silicon, when the race eventually begins, Apple can absolutely be a major player in AI, and that's thanks to Apple Silicon.
Soooo M5 is 2X-2.5X from M1. NOT 6X….
The iPad Pro 12.9 M1 512 is the single best piece of hardware I’ve ever bought in my entire life. It’s worth its weight in rare earth minerals tenfold. I will sell a kidney to buy a new one! Metaphorically…
iPadOS is still SEVERELY lacking, especially in file handling. And cloud "stuff" has just started to work somewhat properly (if you use others than iCloud, which is just extremely slow at everything).
The only thing is that it was equipped with too little memory from the get go and a 2x would probably have made it feel snappier on some ofte heavier software. But I haven’t really noticed it until recently..so that might be poorer optimisation.
I got mine replaced on warranty because of dead spots on the screen. What I think I’ll do is sell this one privately and get a Pro 13 1TB, JUST for the RAM. And the weight savings. Mostly weight savings actually.
What I have noticed though is that local storage on the iPad isn’t as important on the iPad as the iPhone. I’d actually rather have a 256 iPad and a 1TB iPhone. BUT RAM is way more important on the iPad than iPhone.
The iPad Pro 12.9 M1 512 is the single best piece of hardware I’ve ever bought in my entire life. It’s worth its weight in rare earth minerals tenfold. I will sell a kidney to buy a new one! Metaphorically…
iPadOS is still SEVERELY lacking, especially in file handling. And cloud "stuff" has just started to work somewhat properly (if you use others than iCloud, which is just extremely slow at everything).
The only thing is that it was equipped with too little memory from the get go and a 2x would probably have made it feel snappier on some ofte heavier software. But I haven’t really noticed it until recently..so that might be poorer optimisation.
I got mine replaced on warranty because of dead spots on the screen. What I think I’ll do is sell this one privately and get a Pro 13 1TB, JUST for the RAM. And the weight savings. Mostly weight savings actually.
What I have noticed though is that local storage on the iPad isn’t as important on the iPad as the iPhone. I’d actually rather have a 256 iPad and a 1TB iPhone. BUT RAM is way more important on the iPad than iPhone.
Indeed same here with the M5 iPad Unless there something I can’t live without on the next iPad I probably wait tell the M7 or M9 to upgrade the M5 is pointed at people that don’t have or thinking on getting there 1st iPad but if the M1 still work great for you then I probably hold out tell the M7 or M9 iPad Pro buy that time people with the M1 and M2 iPads will be in for a big upgrade
Still happy with my M1 Mac Mini. Capable of running macOS26 means security updates till 2028, which is a good moment to get a M6 Mac Mini.
The other option is using lab grown diamonds.
Superfast diamond-laced computer chips now much closer to reality thanks to 'quantum breakthrough'
Scientists have vastly reduced the temperatures and conditions needed to grow special diamonds for computing, making faster and more efficient computing chips a more realistic proposition.
It’s still carbon like graphene, just a different arrangement of the carbon atoms.
It looks like carbon may be the next element after silicon.
M1 laptop was severely overengineered and overpowered. I had a 2020 intel MPB, got an M1 for a new job. It was super quiet, didn't get hot when running youtube in chrome and i only had to charge it twice during a 5 day work trip abroad. When I got home, by 10 month old £2,200 MPB felt like an agricultural tractor.🤣 6 months later i replaced the intel one with a 13 inch MBP with 512GB storage and 16GB RAM.
Today I run a tech startup using the very same M1 laptop. I also create youtube videos for a hobby and it does so very well. Editign videos off a Samsung T7 SSD feels as fast as using an internal machine. What a machine!! I have never done a fresh reinstall, yet it's still as fast and snappy as it was when new. Battery life is still awesome too!🥰
Today I run a tech startup using the very same M1 laptop. I also create youtube videos for a hobby and it does so very well. Editign videos off a Samsung T7 SSD feels as fast as using an internal machine. What a machine!! I have never done a fresh reinstall, yet it's still as fast and snappy as it was when new. Battery life is still awesome too!🥰
Same, I use it for Blender and some rendering sometimes but it works beautifully. It was an upgrade to my maxed out 2013 Macbook Pro and I can honestly see it lasting longer, its most likely lack of updates in a few more years that will kill it, I can't quite see how opencore team will be able to continue their good work.
"6x CPU/GPU performance" yet the benchmarks show 2x. Ugh. The only thing I hate more than exaggeration is exaggeration when it's not necessary. 😐 That 2x is still 15% improvement a year, with single-thread performance included in that, something that was pretty hard to come by for a long time before M1.
You can see the true performance improvement in the "2.1x code compiling". Everything else is software optimization.
You can see the true performance improvement in the "2.1x code compiling". Everything else is software optimization.
Similar here (although with 1Tb storage). Can’t see any reason to upgrade anytime soon. My 3rd generation iPad Air will be next for an upgrade and/or AirPod Pro 1s.