"In about a week or so these machines will get into the hands of consumers, and we'll see what the real world performance is actually like. For example, Kays Alatrakchi gives a practical use case in an earlier, pre-launch thread: Soon, no one will think you always lose betting against Intel and x86.Īt this point, I'd like to see a video showing how one of these computers could be incorporated into a real-life workflow. No one talks about not getting fired for buying IBM anymore. "You can add as many muches as you want, and it won’t convey the seismic shift the M1 represents. I chatted with one Apple employee who’d been using this hardware for months, and after it was unveiled, his daughter texted him to ask if the new MacBooks were faster than hers. Apple surely could have initiated this transition a few years ago, but they waited until the effect would be colossal, the advantages undeniable. Many technical questions remain for the remainder of this transition. Yes, we still haven’t seen the Apple Silicon chips for high-performance MacBook Pros, let alone for desktop workstations. This transition from Intel to Apple Silicon has clearly been made from a position of overwhelming strength. Apple’s two previous Mac architecture transitions were made from positions of desperation - they were jumping the Mac from sinking ships. "Until now, that is, when it’s clear they’ve lost. Similarly, no one ever won by betting against Intel and the x86 architecture. "Folks used to say that no one gets fired for buying IBM. John Gruber aka Daring Fireball, who has had an M1 MacBook Pro for the last week: ** Coincident with the Apple launch event, AnandTech published an interesting article on what to expect. If you're mildly interested in how Apple gets its computers from China to the rest of the world, these threads show how it's done. There is also a thread, not sticky, specific to U.K. The first sticky thread is on order status. * This is the MacRumors subform for the M1 computers. This launch also presents an amusing quandary for forum participants who think that Grant Petty is God and that Tim Cook is Satan, seeing as how God is wasting no time making sure that his NLE works on Satan's new computers. He's now doubled down on his glorified iPad salvo, and it will be interesting to see what he says when he has the real thing instead of a bunch of specs. Linus, who has already dismissed the M1 Macs as glorified iPads, can be counted on for criticism. The battery runtime on the M1 laptops is pretty enticing. Then again, I did buy the first iPad, the one that was widely ridiculed, which made my life a lot easier when I left a week later for two months of travel. Hey, I know better than to purchase a first generation computer. Nevertheless, I'll be following performance analysis with interest, not just for what these machines can do, but for what they mean as Apple migrates completely to this architecture. That makes me a hard sell for these first M1 Macs, which cap out at 16GB of RAM and won't communicate with an external graphics card. I currently use a 2018 Mac mini, together with a lot of RAM and an external graphics card, to make videos and music. Personally, I'm looking more to AnandTech for solid analysis of performance, but it may not publish for a couple of weeks.** Marques Brownlee is likely to be balanced from a non-technical perspective, but I think that he'll take his time, maybe going with a "first impressions" video before a real analysis. I think that Yuryev has a bit of a "good news" bias, but those earlier videos were nevertheless in the ballpark. A couple of years ago, he made similar videos when Apple beefed up hardware integration and made the final change from 32-bit to 64-bit. To take one example, Max Yuryev, who says that he ordered four M1 Macs, plans to compare M1 and Intel performance, and M1 performance by Davinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro. YouTube channels are likely to start covering video, photo and music performance by the end of the week. I expect to see a lot of coverage, both by the online press and on YouTube. This launch is a big deal, for the future of both Apple and its computer architecture. There are already "leaked" benchmarks floating around the internet, but it's impossible to know whether these are legitimate. Apple starts delivering M1 Mac laptops and Minis tomorrow according to the MacRumors thread on order/shipping status.* This makes it highly likely that benchmarks will be published on Tuesday if not tomorrow evening.
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