Another take on ARM vs Intel Macs

[majus]

This person suggesting if we need high-end Macs, we maybe should ignore ARM machines and stick with Intel Macs.

Apple ARM Mac rumors

The latest rumor is that Apple is going to announce Macintoshes based on ARM processors at their developer conference. I thought I'd write up some perspectives on this.It's different this timeThis would be Apple's fourth transition. Their original Macintoshes in 1984 used Motorola 68000...

securityboulevard.com

The writer has some interesting thoughts. If some of the real experts here would read it and give your opinions it would be most helpful.

 

[chrfr]

This person suggesting if we need high-end Macs, we maybe should ignore ARM machines and stick with Intel Macs.

Apple ARM Mac rumors

The latest rumor is that Apple is going to announce Macintoshes based on ARM processors at their developer conference. I thought I'd write up some perspectives on this.It's different this timeThis would be Apple's fourth transition. Their original Macintoshes in 1984 used Motorola 68000...

securityboulevard.com

The writer has some interesting thoughts. If some of the real experts here would read it and give your opinions it would be most helpful.

My read is that that column is 5 months old and is out of date. We know now that even the entry level MacBook Air has performance that in some cases is faster than any other Mac ever made, and the 13" MacBook Pro has battery life unlike we've seen in any other model. The writer's premise that Intel competes on power and performance is simply wrong.

 

[poorcody]

The author is factually incorrect that ARM designs don't consume less power -- he is postulizing that the performance/watt is similar to Intel, and that scaling a low-power device to desktop performance will result in similar results across both processors. That just isn't the case, as the M1 has proven.