You do. Some small companies below notice may do this and some large companies may do this on a small scale. They’re smart enough limit the use to non-integrated activities like exporting and such to limit the risk of fouling up their content.
Because people like to troll! The responses, especially the lengthy ones, really make their day
)And, gotta admit, the thread has gotten a decent number of eyeballs, so mission accomplished?) And, it certainly doesn’t matter if the view presented is rife with falsehoods or half truths. The same post in a more reasoned and thoughtful tone simply wouldn’t provide the OP with the level of responses required!This is undoubtedly true. Fortunately for Apple, for every customer they’ve lost to PC laptops, they more than obtained new ones that like what they’re selling. Half of macOS system buyers every year are new to the platform, so that’s a NEW 9 million or so every year. When you consider that Mac sales way back then were in the single digit millions per year, that shows why it appears that Apple’s no longer making systems THAT group prefers.
I don't get into benchmark tests, etc. All I can say is I am an app developer and use Xcode heavily about 18 hours per day, 7 days per week. What I can tell you is my 2020 16" MacBook Pro with i9 and 32GB ram used to get so hot trying to use it in my lap even in a case that I had to worry it was going to burn my testicles off. I bought both the M1 MacBook Air and the M1 MacBook Pro, both with 8GB ram and both machines stay super cool and run Xcode faster than my intel MacBook Pro that cost 3 times what the m1 MacBook Pro cost me. In fact, not only Xcode but pretty much every app I use, including Final Cut Pro is overall faster than my intel MacBook Pro. I have even ordered a M1 Mac mini as well now. In my opinion, the M1 Macs are in fact as good as all the hype about them.
They switched from Power PC to Intel for the same reason they have now switched from Intel to Apple Silicon, Power PC (and now Intel) could not keep up with Apple in terms of what Apple wanted to offer in its machines, especially with Intel in the constant delays they would and still have with new chips. Now Apple never has to worry about that again wit h using their own silicon chips.
Why doesn't anyone talk about this more? People that complain about the M1 forget this fact. Wait until the 16" MacBook Pro and 27" iMac and yes eventually the fully maxed out Mac Pro tower get updated with M* processor. Then lets talk about lack of multi-cores and other things.
100% I see this so often. People comparing the M1 machines to i9 computers and ask why Apple took away ports and ram options etc. even though they didnt take anything away. The air and baseline 13” pro has always had 2 ports, and 16gb ram max. The M1 is literally going to be the absolute worst Mac chip they ever make and is literally at the bottom of the chain.
yes, i realized this after 2012 when mavericks was launched and the down fall continued since then.
Still doubt it. I know 40w laptops can have heat problems, and heat is heat. We wont know their makeup until we see it. High end (and my workstation I told you about is only medium end) workstations can have a LOT of cooling --in other words, heat isn't a problem there, so those big multcore processors are *fast*.
Not sure that is true. The only place I've seen the Ryzen 5800U beat out the M1 is in Cinebench. A benchmark that had its core written by Intel and is highly optimized for x86. Not to mention the 5800U has twice the high-performance cores of an M1. Even then, the 5800U loses out on single core tests. As long as an ASi SoC has the memory bandwidth and wins on single core performance, I don't see how Apple is going to lose on mobile performance when it comes to future 5nm SoCs.
I am not a apple hater lol. I use an iPhone and iPad but finds macOS, macbooks and imacs to be crap compared to high end PCs and laptops.
Why are you comparing M1 to a 5950x or a Threadripper? The M1 is replacing Intel i3 and i5 chips. It’s not supposed to compete with a 100W+ chip, let alone a threadripper? it’s literally a 10W mobile (laptop) chip. AMD is not ahead on performance per watt which is the important part. Only the AMD top-end chips surpass single thread speeds and they are not mobile 10W chips. They are heavy duty chips that require fans and cooling systems with plenty of power. It’s like comparing apples to kangaroos.
It's also about durability..... I switched to Windows in 2012 after being a Mac Person my whole life. From 1985-2012. I owned each Machine roughly 5-7 years. Try getting a Windows laptop to last that long. In the 9 years I was with Windows I had 3 HP's die in a year or less, And my 2000 dollar Dell XPS died after 2.5 years. Macs are reliable, durable, and worth every penny.
