Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers

Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by mehrdada on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:09PM (#25050078)

While a valid workload for a segment, I would be a bit skeptical of generalizing the extraordinary video editing capability to general purpose computing, as those things are facilitated heavily by hardware decoders.

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by whynotminot on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:23PM (#25050394)

Agreed, but they did mention what sounded like impressive code compilation times in the presentation too, which is pretty salient for most of us here.

Of course, we'll need to wait for third party verification in the end.

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by mehrdada on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:17PM (#25051279)

Totally--was not diminishing <strike>A14Z</strike>M1 at all--just to moderate expectations from the quite astonishing video editing capability to "measly" ~2x. Even two year old iPad Pro A12X kicks ass on Clang benchmarks (see Geekbench), although I am not sure how sustained the performance is in that thermal envelope.

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by vmception on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:56PM (#25054307)

out of curiosity, were we saying thermal envelope before the Apple presentation today

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