M1 or not M1?

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For those of you thinking shall I or shall I not buy an M1 Mac...

 

From a well-respected UK practice...

"I had the opportunity today to test a new Silicon Mac with VW for nearly an hour, the one we tested was a MacBook Air (Apple M1 chip with 8‑core CPU, 8‑core GPU, and 16GB Memory).

I was afraid of the fact that VW is not a native software but it didn’t seem to be a problem at all. I know I have just used it for a limited time but I tried to do most of the things we are usually doing in the office and it performed brilliantly, it was quick, responsive and flawless. I tried it even with 2 quick renders and it did those under 5 minutes, I did the same with a 2019 27” iMac (3.7Ghz i5, 32GB RAM) earlier and it took significantly more time to deliver them. The point is it was amazing, especially knowing that this is a tiny laptop and not even a native software, I hope that VW will do a native software soon to make it an even better experience."

 

Here's to the future.

[Art V]

Don't make me regret getting an Intel gaming laptop instead of an M1 Mac for roughly the same price 🤔

 

Though some of my most used software either has not Mac equivalent or the functionality of the Mac version is less than that of the Windows version (at the moment). So I'd have to think long and hard anyway before returning to a Mac computer. But it looks like the Apple Silicon Macs may have a performance lead over WinTel machines in the near future, though it depends on what AMD will be able to come up with its Ryzen and Threadripper CPU's. Especially with CPU rendering they're beating Intel by quite a margin compared to similar CPU's from Intel.

 

If M1 is even better than that then it is quite impressive.

[zoomer]

If you can, you should at least wait for the next M1x models.

But it is already impressive what the M1 can do with our x86_64

Apps via Rosetta.

 

I am not sure what Apple exactly does with it its limited RAM, but so far

I never really do run out of RAM with my mere 16 GB.

Just when I exaggerate, it will need a second or two to switch to another App.

And it will get a bit laggy in Twinmotion for me when using too much geometry.

Probably I wouldn't run into any limits already, with a M1x.

But am curious how far they will go during the next years.

 

PCs will always be faster in CPU and GPU by pure numbers, while consuming

more Watts. But the overall Apple Silicon experience is already pretty impressive.

(the Mini fan is always on, but you can't hear it and whatever I try, there comes

cold air out of the back of my Mini)

Edited February 2, 2021 by zoomer