> In real world test after test, the M1 Macs are not merely inching past top of the line Intel Macs, they are destroying them. In disbelief people have started asking how on earth this is possible?
I'm getting sick of this. The M1 is an impressive chip for sure, but it's ridiculous to compare them to the Intel chips in last year's MacBooks. Those chips were old, the cooling solution was terrible, and Intel had already fallen way behind AMD for the kinds of tasks you might actually use a MacBook for. The cynic in me thinks Apple intentionally handicapped the 2019 models to make the M1 look as good as possible... and it clearly worked.
Can we please stop comparing apples to oranges (pun intended)?
Like I said, the M1 is impressive - especially in terms of power efficiency - but we should be comparing it to the likes of an Intel Core i7-1185G7 or the imminent AMD Ryzen 7 5800U.
What are you talking about? The last gen Macbook Air and Pro had Ice Lake chips with Iris Plus graphics, why would that be not a fair comparison? Sure, the Air did have a terrible cooling system, but so does the new Air. The 2020 4-port 13” Macbook Pro that still continues to be sold as they’re the only 13” Macbooks that can be configured with 4TB SSD and 32GB RAM as of now, has a 4-core Ice Lake that Apple literally push to its limits to squeeze every ounce of performance they can, if you watched a review or two covering that machine. Linus Tech Tips complained that it was running too hot — not thermal throttling, just going really fast. And the M1’s GPU is like 2-2.5x faster than even those machines’ iGPU.
I'm getting sick of this. The M1 is an impressive chip for sure, but it's ridiculous to compare them to the Intel chips in last year's MacBooks. Those chips were old, the cooling solution was terrible, and Intel had already fallen way behind AMD for the kinds of tasks you might actually use a MacBook for. The cynic in me thinks Apple intentionally handicapped the 2019 models to make the M1 look as good as possible... and it clearly worked.
Can we please stop comparing apples to oranges (pun intended)?
Like I said, the M1 is impressive - especially in terms of power efficiency - but we should be comparing it to the likes of an Intel Core i7-1185G7 or the imminent AMD Ryzen 7 5800U.