Apple M1, Why It Matters: A PC Hardware Enthusiast Perspective

[Squid Surprise]

WoW dude....
Troll much?

I believe the pot is calling the kettle black... wahoo, you run a read-only OS that can’t actually do anything the average user would want... please explain how this is relevant to the thread?

 

[Bullwinkle M]

I believe the pot is calling the kettle black... wahoo, you run a read-only OS that can’t actually do anything the average user would want... please explain how this is relevant to the thread?

Who cares if it doesn't do anything YOU want it to do?

It does EVERYTHING I need it to do!

So what if the average user only requires a locked down, walled garden, malware infected spyware platform?

My need are much more refined!

 

[neeyik]

Stick to discussing the Apple M1, please.

 

[Squid Surprise]

Who cares if it doesn't do anything YOU want it to do?

It does EVERYTHING I need it to do!

So what if the average user only requires a locked down, walled garden, malware infected spyware platform?

My need are much more refined!

Again... irrelevant... I'd wager you could run Windows XP on an M1 Macbook and it would probably outperform your Sandy-Bridge dinosaur...

 

[Bullwinkle M]

Again... irrelevant... I'd wager you could run Windows XP on an M1 Macbook and it would probably outperform your Sandy-Bridge dinosaur...

Sounds like a bet!

 

[Tantor]

This is the second article (and I’m sure there’s more) where I’ve seen you comment with frankly unbelievable claims comprising a bizarre mixture of conspiracy theory and two-decades-out-of-date marketing spiel for Windows XP. Like, what’s the deal?

The deal is that he's at least partially correct.

If you strongly disagree with someone, please provide some explanation and facts to back your position. If your position has merit, people would like to know.

 

[Stark]

I am really excited for M1, though I am not the customer for Apple, but the implications are astronomical. Now even Microsoft is developing a custom ARM SoC for data centers. It will trickle down to consumer products and the power savings and efficiency as seen on M1 are nothing but alien tech to x86-64 users-space.

 

[ET3D]

I disagree. What professional does not need better batrery life?

I'd say that most pros will have an office, a good large monitor hooked up, and other peripherals, even if their base machine is a laptop. They will not be doing major all-core performance work on the road, because when they're on the move they close their laptop anyway, and when they're working they're near a power socket.

So sure, one could do some work on a laptop in a cafe or whereever, but for that 12 hours of idle battery life, or even 8, are as good as 24+ hours.

 

[Danny101]

It's not going to be a performance champion. But it can putter around all day long without recharging, And so that there is the win.

 

[SixTymes]

Yet another reason to keep the slave labor going. shame on you "fan boys"

 

[wizardB]

Apple M1 beats AMD 64 core Milan in multithreaded workloads. Heard it here first.........
I agree with Linus Sebastian in that when I watched the launch video for this my BS meter was at defcon5 levels. I kept thinking, 'yeah, but it's Apple, so whats the catch, because its in there somewhere'. I also liked how he called them on their marketing slide that just said 'the competition' with a blue bar signifying Intel, which really didn't get much better when they added 'i3' to the bottom, in a footnote no less, after the fact to boot. Not even specifying which one. Nehalem maybe? NetBurst? Did they have I series then?
They did a great job on this, all things considered, but their marketing on this was so 'spun' and skewed I got dizzy watching it. In fact, it has made the opposite to its intent happen with me, it made me so overly skeptical from the used car salesman vibe I got that it's hard for me to acknowledge what really does make it good. Still looking for that catch though, it is Apple after all....

You have now entered the Apple reality zone where the truth is what they tell you and anything else is a lie.

 

[Gromit337]

You have now entered the Apple reality zone where the truth is what they tell you and anything else is a lie.

You can level the same type of claims against almost all companies. Marketing and reality rarely agree on anything. This of course applies to Apple, Intel, ARM, AMD and Nvidia. That's why independent reviews are so important. There are plenty of independent tests which show how much faster the new M1 chips are compared to Intel powered Mac's... using real world programs rather than just artificial benchmarks. Considering this is really early days for Apple silicon, it does seem rather impressive. My only experience with Mac's is retro 68K and PPC, and even that is limited. I do have a 3rd gen iPod, but iTunes on Windows is awful.