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

What is even more baffling, if how much better this M1 runs Intel apps than Intel CPU's ... runs them better, with less energy and almost zero lag ... I have been using Teams for work, and have the new M1 and a Surface Pro X ... Surface Pro X is almost unusable, very slow and the M1 takes a minute to boot, but once booted its as fast as my regular work PC ... its truly Amazing ... in all reality, I know people are asking for more "pro" models of this chip, but if this thing compares to a Mac Pro, what do we need all this power for? dual screens? ha ...
 
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I bought the new M1 MBP, but cancelled the order and bought a 16" one with good specs. I just use so many of the adobe apps, drivers and such, that I don't completely trust Rosetta 2 yet!
 
The more I read articles like this the more I think I made a boneheaded decision to get an early 2020 MacBook Air with an Intel processor instead of the new model with an M1. The bottom line is that I need to run some Windows based applications for work related reasons and no Bootcamp support and no solution from Parallels or WMWare was a deal breaker. I'm sure they'll crack the problem in time but when I saw an early 2020 MacBook Air for a little north of $1,200 that had a Core-i7, 16 GB of RAM and more SSD storage than I need I bit the bullet and bought one. It was heavily discounted and came in an open box from Woot but is flawless and still has an Apple Warranty that I can add AppleCare+ on top of. Thanks to MacRumors for posting links to those late last week. Hopefully within a few months we have Macs with Apple Silicon able to run Windows in a VM but until then I'm really enjoying this MacBook Air!
 
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I can't say these have defied my expectations, I'm just kind of giddy that my expectations were met.

Macs are interesting again! They're not just PCs running a different OS anymore. Even though it had no real impact on my daily life, I really felt a sense of disappointment when PowerPC was retired. There was no mystery about what was next, we got what Intel fed us. Now we can finally be excited about the possibilities again, and wary of the risks.

I'm really looking forward to the next few years.
 
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I currently have the 2017 15" MBP and was thinking of getting an Intel 16" MBP if a new/final one was released yet this year or next year. All these reviews are making me reconsider everything though. I wasn't expecting the Apple Silicon chip to be this great right off the bat. I suppose there could even be a redesign too by the time Apple Silicon does make it to the 16" MBP. Maybe I should just hold off and wait...
 
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Lack of available Windows options is a deal killer, plus 13” is just too small. However this is just massively impressive for a gen 1 model and can’t wait to see what gen 3 looks like.
 
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Just the SOC is enough good reason to buy a MacBook now, looks like the battery and performance experience is above any other current Mac and Windows Laptop, this is the innovation that is needed, not faulty keyboards, not buggy software, not removing ports or chargers, these are quantum leaps that sends Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm back to the drawing board, this is good for consumers.
 
What I'm waiting to see is to have someone do a deep dive to see how much of these improvements are due to the M1 and how much is because of improvements to the SSD read/write speeds coupled with a more parallel disk access. When accessing legacy spinning disks all access is serialized and causes serous bottlenecks. With solid state drives you can potentially read and write to different sections of the disk simultaneously and Big Sur may have introduced these kinds of improvements.
 
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Nothing against this test, but I'd attribute a lot of these performance improvements to the faster SSD. The video export was a little faster - no doubt CPU. Thermal, better, no doubt. But when you double the SSD i/o, this is what I'd expect to see.
 
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ghostface147 said:
Lack of available Windows options is a deal killer, plus 13” is just too small. However this is just massively impressive for a gen 1 model and can’t wait to see what gen 3 looks like.
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I was thinking on the future: keep my Surface Book 2 for those specific apps and if Apple doesn't mess the Mac again and keeps this advantage over x86 I will switch back to Mac, all Microsoft's development tools are already available for macOS.
 
badlydrawnboy said:
I've been using Apple products since the Apple IIc—37 years ago—and I haven't been this excited about Apple's lineup in at least a decade, if not ever. I bought an M1 Macbook Air because I couldn't resist, even though I plan to upgrade to the 14.1" when it comes out in a year. I also have an iMac Pro for more intensive work... I can't even imagine how ridiculously powerful the Silicon machine that replaces that will be. I also got an iPhone 12 Pro Max because of the camera, and it's just insane. Woo hoo!
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There was a time there were "oh, whoopee, more of the same again", but WOW, Apple has turned the market on its head with this release! I knew this was the right move for them for years, and I'm SO glad that they saw that, too. I'm glad to be here to witness this revolution. A year from now, Macs will have a whole new perception in the marketplace.
 
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drumcat said:
Nothing against this test, but I'd attribute a lot of these performance improvements to the faster SSD. The video export was a little faster - no doubt CPU. Thermal, better, no doubt. But when you double the SSD i/o, this is what I'd expect to see.
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Agreed. The SSD performance is a big factor, but at the end of the day, the "whole widget" is just better, and the fact that the M1 CPU was able to blow the Intel CPU away _without getting hot_ is very notable.
 
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I miss the days in the pc world when this used to happen every year. Then somewhere around 2004, Intel said "can't be done" and we've been suffering ever since.
 
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Kevinjohn said:
Meh. I don't see the excitement as this further separates Apple from gaining new users since the compatibility with the rest of the products available on the market is furtherer removed and these precessor don't help anything other than Apple. Intel did similar with an OS specially designed for Intel processors "Clear OS" and it was similarly remarkable but didn't support most graphic hardware, so lost interest by a huge user base. It also basically looks like anyone that recently purchased an Apple anything wasted their money yet again.
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I can understand a lack of excitement about the chips in isolation because, as you say, they seem to only serve Apple. But, I'm incredibly excited about the computers Apple will be able to deliver with these chips. I did buy my daughter a 13" macbook pro a few months back and I don't feel the money was wasted nor does it limit my excitement for these new machines.

Can you give me a specific example of a compatibility problem that would discourage a user from switching to mac? Are you thinking of the Mac Pro where a user might want to upgrade components inside the case? Are you imagining there would be some problem with the external peripherals that would discourage them from buying these laptops?
 
I know there is power to consider, obviously, but M1 is running at 3.2GHz while Intel is 1.4GHz, plus turbo. So it’s not surprising M1 outperforms. The bigger deal is what it can do at lower power.
 
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Just imagine this but in five years when Apple is on 2 or 3nm 16-32 cores while Intel is on 10nm++++, lol. Also imagine Apple with a few more years experience in designing desktop GPUs.
 
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