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Watch the M1 Apple Silicon MacBook Air Blaze Through Opening Every Default App

dazzer21-2 said:
Also, Apple don't want the current $5000 iMac Pro customers switching to $1000 MacBook Airs because it's quicker! More powerful kit must be around the corner for their sake.
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I'm very interested to see what Apple does with the Mac Pro with their ARM chips, I'm hoping for something that just slaughters everything else out there, Intel or AMD.

The chip to beat is the 64 core Epyc Zen 3. I imagine they'll have to build some custom silicon just for the Mac Pro.
 
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So should I get MacBook Air 8GB RAM version or 16? I plan to use it for around 3 years. All I use is Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, read PDF textbooks and use computer for general browsing, Netflix and mail. I don‘t do photo editing or video editing. I don't want to spend unnecessarily. What does MacRumors think? I don’t use chrome.

Edit - I’m asking here because the video in OP shows 8GB MacBook Air, and even with those many apps it doesn’t seem to slow down.
 
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This is all good but will Apple run into the same problems of other chip makers that in four years they can’t make their CPU’s any faster and other chip makers have caught up and this speed is the norm, Apple is painting themselves in a corner.

But for today, Apple enjoy your time in the limelight and get all you can and can all you get. 😎
 
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Populus said:
Honestly, I think this jump in performance is one of the biggest along with the jump from single core to dual core (and multi-core) CPUs back in the past decade. I think this sets a new baseline and load times are already a thing of the past.
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I was thinking the same thing. The last time I saw gains like this was with Intel Core 2 and Athlon X2. If we are talking within a single lineup I'd include the first Zen chips.
Great so see things being pushed forward in a big way, no thanks to Intel.
 
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The next mbp redesign should be thin n light like the mba. If that mba can run close enough to a mbp in that chasis, I don’t want to lug a mbp m1 with 5% -10 more power than mba but same weight as the old gen chasis. My 2012 mbp feels like a brick and looking for a future faster lighter chasis but with pro level performance.
 
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Serban55 said:
be sure that you dont need more than 2 ports or more than 1 external monitor
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Right now ! use two ports only for one external monitor and the other one to charge the MacBook. I don't really use Linux or Windows. I mainly need it for school, web browsing, email, edit light videos and photos.
 
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This is how I feel watching that after owning something like 20 Macs in 25 years.
 
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Wait now. Wasn't fast opening apps something they were boasting about 10 years ago? How/why are we back to this as a selling point? 😯
 
I've been using my M1 base spec Mac mini and it took 25+ apps to make the memory chug; Kerbal Space Program (Steam), Xcode compiling, Adobe XD, Safari (twitch), Safari (Crunchyroll), AppleTV+, Pathfinder Adventures (iPadOS), Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Notes, Messages...and a bunch of other apps open simultaneously.

I haven't heard the fan at all, it's 100% silent and the fan hasn't kicked in.

this...thing....is....ridiculous, I really doubt many people will need 16GB of memory

don't get me wrong: it definitely uses some OS tricks such as swap memory, etc. etc. but none of that matters, it only matters when the system is no longer fluidly usable tbh
 
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I am completely shock (not because I doubt it Apple) but I thought that
a) Apple was going milk the performance and features by exceeding Intel by only 10-15% within the first 2 years
b) They didn't want it to cannibalized their existing Intel inventory as they famously don't like to carry a lot of unsold SKUs

BUT this is just amazing

Think about it, these M1's will be the slowest CPU/GPU's that Apple will ever ship - every subsequent family of chips will be faster and more power efficient
 
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mike... said:
This is literally why I'm so disappointed Apple didn't at least give the new Mini a 32GB RAM option. As a developer I'm just not getting on board until it's there because my workflow will just kill the machine.
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As a developer, I can tell you that the 16GB in these new machines will far out perform 32GB in anything you've used previously. I certainly recommend learning about ARM and the differences between your standard CPU like the Intel chips we've been using. RAM in these cases is not directly 1:1 comparable.
 
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