Watch Apple's M1 MacBook Pro Obliterate 2020 Intel MacBook Pro in Speed Tests

[Marshall73]

STOP EFFING CALLING IT Apple Silicon !!!! It has a name, ARM POWERPC !

Powerpc is an IBM product and nothing to do with the Apple Silicon M1.

 

[SchroederDoodle]

You’re going to be sorry for that.

Well if devs can get their act together quick enough I have until January to return the 16" 🤣 But as was my hunch, pen tablet drivers aren't working on M1. If interested see here:

 

[Macbookprodude]

Time remains to be seen if the M1 will be a true winner or not, my prediction is it won’t.

 

[Rahtid]

The major problem for a customer like myself is that its a Mac again; sub par performance, for a lot more money, can't run Windows or legacy applications, has no nVidia cards; RTX or CUDA, everything is soldiered yet the absolute cheek of a company who've created so much waste to then run their mouths about sustainability. **** OFF.

 

[MacAddict1978]

I've been reading all this reviews about how the new and wonderful M1 opens things faster but isn't that just because the difference in SSD read speeds?

I have to say, I see massive performance improvements in everything. Excel isn't usually an app you hear people use as a comparison, but anyone that's had a huge workbook with lots of queries and pivots knows how it hangs, freezes, crashes, run out of memory.... and it's like a knife through butter and instant. (I have a high end i7 Dell that chokes on a particular Excel workbook, but this baby just chomps on through it.)

The only issue I've had has been Chrome even after they "fixed" the M1 version. It periodically will cripple everything which is really irritating. But 4K video editing? Knife through butter and fast. Things just don't open instantly, they're ready to roll instantly.

It's a very noticeable difference.

 

[09872738]

Time remains to be seen if the M1 will be a true winner or not, my prediction is it won’t.

I hold against that. While upcoming ASi chips will beat the M1 performance-wise, there is no match in the x86 world. The M1 Macs already are game-changers, and from the looks of it I’d assume we ain‘t seen nothing yet

 

[Menneisyys2]

I’m calling ******** on that story. The x86 processor can’t be made power-efficient in the same way as an ARM chip. They’ve been trying for a decade.

Yup. However, AMD is definitely doing better than Intel in this regard (too). Of course they still can't approach the power efficiency of M1.

I only wish there was a way to provide Windows compatibility. I currently run Win10 in Parallels for Visual Studio on a 2018 MacMini (16G RAM) and absolutely love the setup. Running stuff in a VM, with MacOS as the host, is so much better than a native Windows notebook and there's almost no speed hit. I'd love a dual AS Mx + x86 CPU-based MacOS setup to cover both cases, even at a higher price.

 

[ClockMeister]

I have a 2020 MBP 13” and just traded it in directly to Apple for $770 to put towards an M1 MBP. Figured that would be the easiest and most I’d get for it.

You probably could have gotten $1,200+ for it if you had sold it on eBay. You got a decent trade-in value but nowhere near what you could have gotten.

 

[efp722]

You probably could have gotten $1,200+ for it if you had sold it on eBay. You got a decent trade-in value but nowhere near what you could have gotten.

Definitely possible. Not really interested in eBay these days. Gotten burned way to many times.

 

[ClockMeister]

Definitely possible. Not really interested in eBay these days. Gotten burned way to many times.

Hmm ... burned, eh? I've used eBay for years, no major problems. Don't blame you if you've been burned, though.