Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review
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Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review
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#2> compared to the last version of this [Macbook Pro] model we reviewed in 2019, the new one has no concerns with its keyboard, excellent battery life, and even better performance. It’s an upgrade all around.
That's the most important part.
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#3I'm still cautiously skeptical about the new M1 chips. While for typical users running chrome, facetime, mail, etc it should be fine, I'm still wondering how it will fare under other workloads. I know apple mentioned that it will be able to export video much faster than intel chips, I'm still wondering what performance will look like for various tech stacks.
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#4It's worth noting that while there are still quite a few caveats to the M1 MacBook Pro when looking at "pro workflows", this is only intended to replace the "low end" MacBook Pro which was already quite restricted.
Given all the missing parts could require a fair bit more development (eGPU support is not something iPhones have needed so far after all), I expect we'll see these on the next generation of CPUs, along with a range of new higher-end MacBook Pros, the iMac Pro, potentially even the Mac Pro.
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#5> We found one strange Rosetta bug in this test: we set Premiere to export at a 40mb/s bitrate, but in Rosetta across three M1 Macs, it would deliver… 20. When we set it to 80mb/s, it delivered 40. Sure. We told Adobe, and the company gently reminded us that running Creative Cloud apps in Rosetta 2 is unsupported. So... be careful out there.
Rosetta 2 might be a bumpy ride, but nice to see that Creative Cloud tools even work in it.
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#6I wonder why the performance for Microsoft's Surface Pro X under performs so much in comparison... Color me surprised, I didn't know ARM could perform so well for desktop applications.
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#7Is any web developer planning to get the new Apple Silicon Macs?
How's docker support (for ARM and x86 images)? Do the major IDEs work on Rosetta? What's support looking like for languages like GO, Rust now/in the near future?
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#8I wonder why the performance for Microsoft's Surface Pro X under performs so much in comparison... Color me surprised, I didn't know ARM could perform so well for desktop applications.
Because Microsoft, much like most of the ecosystems around ARM, didn't build their own CPU. They got an off the shelf mobile chipset, customised it slightly, rebranded it and then chucked the whole shit heap of windows on top.
Re: Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review
#9It's worth noting that while there are still quite a few caveats to the M1 MacBook Pro when looking at "pro workflows", this is only intended to replace the "low end" MacBook Pro which was already quite restricted. Given all the missing parts could require a fair bit more development (eGPU support is not something iPhones have needed so far after all), I expect we'll see these on the next generation of CPUs, along wi…
I don't think we'll see a Mac Pro for a long time, this will be the most difficult (and interesting) one to see move over to ARM.
Re: Apple MacBook Pro with M1 Review
#10Is any web developer planning to get the new Apple Silicon Macs? How's docker support (for ARM and x86 images)? Do the major IDEs work on Rosetta? What's support looking like for languages like GO, Rust now/in the near future?
All (-ish?) the core images have arm variants, and no need to change your "FROM" for those.
Docker itself does not currently work on M1 Macs, though.