Many who needs 2 external monitors already wait. They don‘t need an awful Forbes article which doesn’t get basic things right, like running Edge on M1, to tell them. The author is like an amateur.
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Forbes goes in hard with damming review on M1 Pro
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It's perfectly reasonable, and far more informative to write a balanced article showing pros and cons, for example, this one from PCMag.
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Should You Skip the Apple M1 Chip?
After testing the 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, we can confidently say that Apple's new homegrown M1 CPU is seriously impressive. But do you need a new Mac right now? We have upgrade advice for every type of user, including Windows fans.
If anything MR Forum community has been pretty harsh on Apple in the past several years. Some warranted and some not in my opinion. Sometimes I agree and sometimes not. Apple certainly ain't perfect. Far from it.
I also think that a fan community has little impact on the 2nd biggest company in the world. We are but a tiny fraction of the user base of Apple Products.
Apple has released 3 low tier machines that replace 3 low tier intel machines. Overall they are incredible releases. Something I never thought I'd say again for Apple. Credit where it is due. Are they for all users? Absolutely not. And those users need to bide their time until the system becomes more robust.
As for flaws. I don't think that's quite the right word. More like shortcomings at the moment that more than likely get rectified as the tech matures. Although some may never get rectified. We just don't know yet. And... intel macs are still being sold. They are solid machines. Apple is giving us the choice. I don't really get the issue to be honest. Sounds like some people want it all and they want it now!
I honestly believe there is some dummy spitting going on. People who really shouldn't be getting these machines are desperate for them because they are so exciting and new. But because they don't fit their needs they are frustrated to miss out on the latest tech or are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Don't underestimate the pettiness of the tech world.
As for your final sentence. Not sure that makes sense. It's like saying: This well designed 4WD is totally frustrating to drive on narrow city streets! Argh! I don't like it! That's not a valid opinion. That's just being a bit silly.
I must be doing something wrong with my M1 MacBook Air, I just finished writing documents in Word without a hitch including linking to my organisations OneDrive service, I have teams running and it works just fine and have my work e-mail coming in through Outlook while driving a single external display.
I agree that some people shouldn't be getting these machines, but should instead be looking at them as a good sign for the machines that are coming that they should get. If you are currently working on a 16" MBP with 2 external displays and a battery of external devices then these are not the Mac's you are looking for. They are coming, and if this is what the entry level of Apple Silicon Mac's, the higher end MacBook Pro's, the iMac's and the Mac Pro based on Apple Silicon could be very exciting indeed.
I suspect Apple will have to move fairly soon, the higher end machines are profitable, and now they are basically dead products for most users unless they desperately need Bootcamp or something else dependent on x86 support. For anyone else why would you buy an Intel 16" MBP now, when you know that it's performance is nearly matched by a 13" MacBook Air and that something better in the 16" range must be coming.
I agree that some people shouldn't be getting these machines, but should instead be looking at them as a good sign for the machines that are coming that they should get. If you are currently working on a 16" MBP with 2 external displays and a battery of external devices then these are not the Mac's you are looking for. They are coming, and if this is what the entry level of Apple Silicon Mac's, the higher end MacBook Pro's, the iMac's and the Mac Pro based on Apple Silicon could be very exciting indeed.
I suspect Apple will have to move fairly soon, the higher end machines are profitable, and now they are basically dead products for most users unless they desperately need Bootcamp or something else dependent on x86 support. For anyone else why would you buy an Intel 16" MBP now, when you know that it's performance is nearly matched by a 13" MacBook Air and that something better in the 16" range must be coming.
this guy writes that apple changed the fan in the mbp but fixit shows apple has not. Forbes is just writing more bull***
He's probably incorrectly comparing it to the 4-port MacBook Pro, which has 2 fans. The M1 released last week replaced the 2-port MacBook Pro that had only 1 fan.
...That would undercut his credentials as a “journalist” even further. Let me review this Honda Accord and comment about how it’s different somehow from the higher end Acura TLX.
This guy is obviously a paid shill for M$. There are plenty of unbiased reviews if you don't trust the more Apple friendly reviewers.
Wait, what year is this? Who on earth is using WinZip especially on a Mac? I feel like I need a shower after reading this.
Yawn, another “expert” flopping his gums. World’s #1 analyst... if he’s so insightful, he must have had the foresight to revolutionize the industry. No? He just writes opinions about it? Yeah, thought so...
That's what I thought when I saw he had IE open... Ewww LOL
The thing is that he used to be a fairly balanced analyst. I guess he decided to go the clickbait route.
True, but PCMag did a much better job of answering that question. They acknowledged the M1 Macs are great computers but that it isn’t necessary or desirable for certain classes of buyers to make the leap now.
Its a reasonable review that talks of incompatibilities and performance issues in some real world use cases. If they don’t apply to you then fine. But they do affect many people. I find this type of review much more useful than running synthetic benchmarks like geekbench.
Gordon Kelly. Apple could cure cancer tomorrow and he’d find a reason to complain.
Winzip 8 was released 20 years ago.
Those are tools intended to help developers of ios apps. It is not an api for developing windows software.
WinZip has always been crap, even on Windows.
He sounds like he shouldn't be reviewing anything, let alone Macs. This may be the dumbest review I've ever read.
That is not a 'balanced review' in terms of actual real world usage of an M1. The Forbes review is based on a 5 day realworld usage of the machine, the PCMag review is specifically related to if buyers of existing mac machines should upgrade to an M1. This cannot be compared to the Forbes review because it's context is entirely different. Also, the PCMage review is very pro supportive towards Apple and the M1, hence why there has been no outcry about it in this forum.It's perfectly reasonable, and far more informative to write a balanced article showing pros and cons, for example, this one from PCMag.
Should You Skip the Apple M1 Chip?
After testing the 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, we can confidently say that Apple's new homegrown M1 CPU is seriously impressive. But do you need a new Mac right now? We have upgrade advice for every type of user, including Windows fans.