It does help that, unlike Intel, Apple doesn’t have a long history of cheating with rigged benchmark software
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Mac M4 Chip Performance Unveiled in First Benchmarks
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... with surprisingly low performance to get it
Yeah, Electron based apps have been super popular in the last decade. However a new trend is happening, for example the new Zed editor is lightweight and unbelievably snappy in comparison to bloated whales like vscode. A few other cross platform projects have also dropped Electron. I hope it’s a trend that’ll continues to grow.
There seems to be a lot of headroom in the Apple Silicon architecture, they keep making these 20-25% improvements and it keeps adding up. Good stuff.
Great performance over Apple Mac M1, M2, and M3 chips! Looking forward to the seeing the M4 Pro, M4 Max, and M4 Ultra benchmarks soon!
Not sure what you're doing on your machine, but my M2 Pro 16 GB is barely moving already. Eagerly looking forward to an update.
Now if only the iPad had the software to use all that power 🥲
New CPU's are faster and water is still wet, while great to see I'm not updating from my Mac mini M2 pro as its just a year old and still super fast and I don't update computers yearly, that's just dumb in my view. Yes lets spend £3000 in two years for a 25% increase because Apple jumped up two generations of CPU's in that time and next year a M25 will appear no doubt, you cant just keep updating, when it is slow as molasses and cant have a new update then fine, until then it stays as it works well for my needs. Milk more cash cows Apple, as some people will update anything yearly it seems these days just to have the latest M number SoC and probably have more gimped internals as Apple give and Apple take away. So this year its AI, what comes next to empty the wallet I wonder.
Apple compares Macs with Macs from two or three generations ago: "that's misleading!"
Apple compares Macs with the previous gen: "that's a cash grab!"
Apple compares Macs with the previous gen: "that's a cash grab!"
I've got no idea what you're trying to say here but it did make me laugh, so thanks for posting.
25% supposed gain in 1 year is not so incredible alone! I think M4 will be a very nice update over M3 (MBP is the best laptop you can buy now, and I own a m3 max MBP with satisfaction ) , but honestly not enough to be "so surprised"... in more than 30 years INTC had similar (maybe a little less) year over year update... we need a little more updates in my opinion (screen, ...)
🌟 To Apples silicon design team for continual outstanding gains that are achieved with each iteration of the M processors. Considering both the M3 and M4 soc are based on the 3nm architecture. To have 25% gain is superlative to say the least!
Is the majority of the M4's increase still down to that one single geekbench sub-test as detailed in the iPad M4 tests after it's launch?
Apple is big enough to be able to focus on software and hardware developments concurrently.
I’m looking forward to Apple’s first quantum processor, the Q1. With every bit of its 48GB quantum RAM acting as a qbit. Kids of the future are going to have a right laugh at the compute technology we use today.
Do we need to supply our own liquid nitrogen?
Yes, but of course it will only work with Apple brand liquid nitrogen which will cost 10X what you could source it from otherwise.
That could be a valid reason for some, although an expensive one. The other commenter was complaining about the high cost for a 25% speed increase. That was problematic to complain about because few people upgrade their laptops every year and an increase of 25% in a year is quite large.
Whether intentional or not, seems like Apple is emulating Intel's old 'Tick, Tock' cycle with the even-numbered M-series chips being the sweet spots: M2 and now the M4.
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25/30% increase is nothing to scoff at
Even if this trend doesn’t keep going for the next decade (which let’s be honest it won’t) it should be a nice improvement for me when I eventually retire my M1 and switch whatever newest chip will be
Even if this trend doesn’t keep going for the next decade (which let’s be honest it won’t) it should be a nice improvement for me when I eventually retire my M1 and switch whatever newest chip will be
Thanks for posting.
Do you have an answer? Or is your mission to be a bit “edgy” with your various replies on here?