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That said, we already have had plenty of these comparisons done, I don't think there is anything revolutionary here, this is more an article targeted towards people who do a specific task (photography) than tech news in general.
> this changes everything > As you can see, M1 Mac beats Intel Mac in every Lightroom benchmark across the board Yeah, by a relatively small amount according to your own charts... It's still impressive, not exactly earth shattering.
Running through emulation and on an entry level first generation machine that is significantly cheaper
> this changes everything > As you can see, M1 Mac beats Intel Mac in every Lightroom benchmark across the board Yeah, by a relatively small amount according to your own charts... It's still impressive, not exactly earth shattering.
I think Apple is a huge threat to general purpose computing freedom, and I refuse to use their products. But hats off to their M1!
> this changes everything > As you can see, M1 Mac beats Intel Mac in every Lightroom benchmark across the board Yeah, by a relatively small amount according to your own charts... It's still impressive, not exactly earth shattering.
Running through emulation and on an entry level first generation machine that is significantly cheaper
> this changes everything > As you can see, M1 Mac beats Intel Mac in every Lightroom benchmark across the board Yeah, by a relatively small amount according to your own charts... It's still impressive, not exactly earth shattering.
Intel have managed to squeeze an incredible amount of performance out of their 14nm (+++...) but it's at a cost and that cost was power consumption, they had no other choice with their DOA 10nm (hyperbole for affect :)).
Nothing really new in this post, not sure how this still makes the top of hn. Don't buy the pro, buy the air. The fan is a negative, not a positive, and the case is a lot more handy. Also, real buttons. I was one of the people who liked the touchbar, but I don't miss it at all
I will keep my cooling, thank you very much
Or am I missing something? If this chip had more cores or was a variant with all 8 performance cores that would be a thing.
> this changes everything > As you can see, M1 Mac beats Intel Mac in every Lightroom benchmark across the board Yeah, by a relatively small amount according to your own charts... It's still impressive, not exactly earth shattering.
Running through emulation and on an entry level first generation machine that is significantly cheaper
The $2600 32GB 2TB Intel-based Macbook Pro 13" is only $300 more than the $2300 16GB 2TB M1-based Macbook Pro 13", though. If you could spec the M1 with 32GB, it would probably cost the same.
As pointed out, if you go with 1TB, you save $400. As per usual, the upgrade prices are (in my opinion) crazy!
I think a lot of people who have been reflexively buying new MacBook Pros every couple years should do themselves a favor and seriously consider a MacBook Air this time around. It's the same performance most of the time, and for tasks longer than 5 minutes, thermal throttling will only reduce performance by ~20% or so - for many that's still, plenty, plenty fast, when the baseline is a super fast machine. And in retu…
Point being: the air and the pro seem be converging to a single point and the air is already there.