The iPhone 12's A14 Bionic chip already has 6 cores (2 performance, 4 low power), so you'll need at least 7 in your MacBook Air. Let's round it up to 8 for good luck
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What will be your first ARM MAC?
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The iPhone 12's A14 Bionic chip already has 6 cores (2 performance, 4 low power), so you'll need at least 7 in your MacBook Air. Let's round it up to 8 for good luck
I don't see MacOS as being a "toy OS" at all. You may not like the visual design they've chosen, but I don't see any limitations on the functionality, which is what counts. From my perspective as a DevOps engineer, being underpinned by a solid Unix OS, and providing a good set of os-level tools makes it more functional than Windows 10 out of the box. On Windows, I have to work with the Linux sub-system for Windows (or else learn the ghastly PowerShell) to do "serious" work. All the software I need for my work is available on MacOS and works well. I see no compromise.
In the end, the OS exists to manage your files and applications and keep them running correctly. If it does that, then I don't care what it looks like. In most cases, the general usability of MacOS seems better than Windows 10. The OS and application interfaces in MacOS are more consistent (same key shortcuts, consistent user interface) - and it doesn't have to carry the baggage of past iterations of Windows, with functional duplications in many areas (settings + control panel, Windows Desktop + Microsoft Store apps).
Windows is the only ToyOS I can think of.. I mean, it comes pre-bundled with games and ads.
They are apps not part of the operating system. Uninstalling them takes 30 seconds.
Windows has faster video, 2D and 3D acceleration support with up to date versions of all major APIs Direct X, Vulkan, OpenGL, CUDA and OpenCL. This is not a toy for many professionals. It’s 2020 now not 1995.
Really? Let me know how removing all the xbox crap out of Windows 10 goes.
MacBook Pro 13' (ideally 14 or 16), less than that would be too small for my needs. I'll wait to see what the 1st gen would be and in the meanwhile maybe 2d gen will arrive late next year. I'm not going to hurry with this one for sure, despite the building anticipation.
Whichever MacBook Pro satisfies the following:
- Four USB ports
- 16 GB RAM
- 1 TB storage
Surprisingly I’m good with either a 13”/14” or a 15”/16”.
- Four USB ports
- 16 GB RAM
- 1 TB storage
Surprisingly I’m good with either a 13”/14” or a 15”/16”.
I'll add to that with:
Exceed 15W Intel Tiger Lake 11th gen Windows laptop performance.
Can at least match or better GPU performance of AMD Radeon Pro 5300M of the entry-level MBP16
Can get at least 8 hours of battery life under real working conditions (which for me requires running 50+ browser tabs, several large open documents (PDF, Word, Excel), or editing 4K video)
I suspect that the first gen Apple Silicon MacBook won't quite meet all of the above requirements, although it will be close.
Something to replace my 2012 quad-core i7 Mac Mini, probably whatever higher-end multi-core Mac Mini with ARM processing would be available. But that may not be for a couple of years; first I need to replace my 2009 MacBook with a much newer MacBook Pro, but I'll settle with an Intel model that can run MacOS 11 Big Sur. So at least I can still use my 2012 Mini as my main desktop and also have a computer that can run Big Sur.
Windows is trying to be a consumer OS as Apple, but isn’t even close.
However I do prefer Windows to actual get work done and have been super productive since I got myself a PC. But this also depends on the work I am doing. The technical process based stuff I feel comfortable in windows with, but when it comes to image / music / video etc my mac takes over.
3D is another discussion but I am looking forward to hearing about C4D and octane performance and see how it compares to a Nvidia 3080 / 90 [probably not even remotely close but I would like to know how it is going to get close]
So my first mac AS computer will most likely be a 14” Ma book pro. The desktops wont be close to the performance I need for a long time I imagine [CPU + GPU power requried].
Most likely a 14 inch MacBook air or pro, whatever has at least 3 ports, and at least 12-15 hours battery life. I suspect I'll get gen 2 of their new arm machines, and then gen 2 of their larger iMac redesign. (Assuming that's in 2022 for the desktops). Slowly but surely everything I own is turning USB C, but i'm not there yet.
The first macbook they release that brags about being as or more powerful than the 8 core 2.4ghz they have out now. 2 USB C ports is plenty, I do not fear hubs and dongles. Mostly going to wait to see about graphics and whether it can handle a 27" screen or two.
I prefer MacOS to get actual work done because it is Unix. You can of course use WSL on Windows but the fact that you have to is the problem.
Yes, definitely. I think I've had a 13" 2.0/16g/1t in my Apple shopping cart since it was announced in May.
The opposite, I bought a 2020 iMac because I figured it would probably be the last desktop Intel Mac released. I am not looking to jump to the ARM Macs until all my apps are Native ARM.
A 14" MacBook Pro. This would be a nice middle-ground between the current 13" and 16".