How many times do I have to say I made a mistake in buy the M1 MBA? And just who else here did I blame? You guys really aren't reading what I'm saying I guess.
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M1 chip fast my ass...
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If your usage includes running legacy Windows apps build for Intel CPUs then an Apple Silicon Mac was never intended to fit your usage. Apple has never promoted running Windows on their ARM based Macs. They do seem to want to support Linux VMs though. Presumably they want to keep all those developers who use Macs to write applications that get deploy to Linux.
OK, yes some x86 chips are way faster than the M1. But at a cost
Anyone running workloads so time critical that the m1 is too slow already doesn't care that the m1 is too slow. They actually have work to do and are using hardware design to do it. Definitely not someone whining on forums. All I can say is the m1 was affordable, and many times faster at every task as my i5-6600 was.
Yeah my M1 Air doodoos all over my maxed out 2017 MacBook Pro 15" ... and without a fan ... and with 4 times the battery life ... and for half the price. So I'm okay.
I’ll remember that in the one or two times a month that I reboot. What a strange metric.The M1 is fast yes, but the boot time of macOS as got worse every year...
My 2019 X1 Yoga with a 10th gen intel and 16gb of ram is a piece of crap with a battery that doesn't want to be recognized as genuine. This is a known problem. I'll stick with the M1 MacBook Air over that Lenovo crap.
I haven't cold booted since every update lol. Like for real I either lift up the screen or just press ENTER when connected to my Thunderbolt dock and start working
And that's why you use ThinkPads instead of the Yoga toys, where the TP provide 14-15 hours of runtime with the battery.
The previous goalpoasts of "I can build a faster machine myself" were valid IMO. The recent arguments much less so.
People are saying. "But the 11900k is faster than M1. Therefore PC wins." The 11900k costs two thirds as much as an M1 mini, and will still run hotter, even with a 360 AIO on it. Never mind that 11900k+ 360 AIO totals to the same cost as an M1 mini.
I think the M1X will change the game yet again. 'You fool, this isn't even my final form.' What an anthropomorphized M1 said to an Intel chip.
Switching to SSD improves the performance of any I/O bound task compared to a plain HDD. The entire computer becomes more responsive through faster I/O. That should be an overall improvement to most people, I’d say.
I don’t know if people exaggerate their boot numbers on a non fast boot system. But even on a freshly installed Windows 10 on a fast NVME, I get 10 seconds. Not 5. And when I install stuff, as of right now, it’s a 20 second boot.
Actually yes there was an issue with Catalina as my 2019 i9 iMac was kernel panicing every hour. Apple confirmed it was an OS level issue and it was fixed with a later patch to Catalina. The issue came back with Big Sur, but was fixed within the first two updates.
That’s video showing the scores running the Rosetta version of photoshop. The M1 native version scores 800+ on puget bench, throughly trouncing what ever the Samsung laptop with the intel chip scores in this video.
So yes it is the apex Everyone claims it to be. It also does this with far less power consumed.
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Unless the system is memory starved for the workflow being performed, assuming it is not I/O based, the overall responsiveness doesn't improve by any perceptible amount.
It was the most advanced Lenovo at the time. I doubt any experienced IT would ever call the X1 yoga a toy. But you go on with your little attitude where you know it all and remain grumpy.And that's why you use ThinkPads instead of the Yoga toys, where the TP provide 14-15 hours of runtime with the battery.
I don't consider a 2k+ Thinkpad professional laptop a toy. It was the most expensive and advanced at the time.And that's why you use ThinkPads instead of the Yoga toys, where the TP provide 14-15 hours of runtime with the battery.
When it works it easily gets 12 hours on battery. But the professional Lenovo laptops from 2019-2020 are notorious for their bad batteries. I've never had a problem with any Macbook.