I feel your pain! It's like watching paint dry.The wait for an in depth look at the machines is excruciating.
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The "Heads of Tech" YouTube channel has a 4 hour (!) live presentation of the MBP & MBA filmed earlier today in Australia.
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That’s my guess too. That’s Apple’s favourite day and time.
Tuesday 17th Nov 2020
10am PST
1pm EST
6pm UK time.
6 more hours to wait for proper reviews. I don’t usually get so excited but this is a big change.
I was expecting to see my Youtube feed to be littered with reviews but no dice. I'm getting a sneaky suspicion that Apple didn't send out review units.
They've run a ton of tests already. First video was 4 hours for the MBA and MBP and the current video (running for over 2 hours live) is for the Mini. Good stuff!
Possibly! There is one other review scheduled on YouTube, but not one of the "usual suspects".
I don't know if there are reviewers under embargo or not, but if so, they are a bit late because ordinary folks who have received their orders are already reviewing them....
I suppose it doesn't matter, because we'll probably still watch the MaxTech, Gerald Undone, Matti Hapoja videos etc. Maybe even Linus will admit that the M1 looks quite good
They're also testing on a 4k monitor. Pros and cons at the mo re refresh rate but don't think they've using USB-C yet.
Thanks for sharing. Really interesting results there - very early indications are that these M1 Macs are going to have absolutely epic performance.
apparently the two older macs were on mains power, and the M1 was on battery only
Impressive but a bit of an epic review fail (!)
I prefer this to be honest, if you follow the embargo and releases by Intel, AMD and Nvidia, it's painful.
Today we can take the GPU out of the box
Tomorrow we can show you it being installed in a PC
The day after we can show it running a few apps and games....and repeat.
Three weeks down the line we finally get the review and benchmarks.
Oh by the way when you we finally release the review you still won't be able to buy the product as we've sold all stock to scalpers who are charging 5x the retail price on eBay.
At least with Apple I can actually order a device and get a delivery date.
Today we can take the GPU out of the box
Tomorrow we can show you it being installed in a PC
The day after we can show it running a few apps and games....and repeat.
Three weeks down the line we finally get the review and benchmarks.
Oh by the way when you we finally release the review you still won't be able to buy the product as we've sold all stock to scalpers who are charging 5x the retail price on eBay.
At least with Apple I can actually order a device and get a delivery date.
I'm grateful that they are excited for it and that they tried, but it's long and all over the place.
I just want the cold hard facts in a too the point, well edited video lol.
Right?? I was looking forward to seeing something useful and tuned in while love to see some guy doing a chair dance or something. Humming some song. I get it, I’ll be doing the same thing when I get mine but come on.
What I don't understand in regards to Embargo is why can't we get the exact time its being lifted , what is the drawbacks of telling us that reviews will drop at 10:00 EST for example ? I can see why you don't want to have rushed reviews so you set an Embargo , but why is it so secret as to WHEN its being lifted .... is it the same for all other products launches that have NDA`s ?
I was hoping one of the MacRumors crew would have answered that question in reply to my original post.
Mini - https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-tested
Air - https://www.theverge.com/21569603/apple-macbook-air-m1-review-price-specs-features-arm-silicon
Guess embargo lifted at 9am Eastern.
Air - https://www.theverge.com/21569603/apple-macbook-air-m1-review-price-specs-features-arm-silicon
Guess embargo lifted at 9am Eastern.
The review embargo would appear to be over if my YouTube notifications are anything to go by.