Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by fpig on Thursday November 12, 2020 @11:14AM (#25071347)

Wow, I just checked and yeah those prices are pretty insane, especially if you want a better-than-base model. I guess then in the desktop arena, Macs are at a disadvantage, because you can build a similarly powerful PC for a much more reasonable amount.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by pantulis on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:09PM (#25072725)

Certainly the Pro Desktops must be intended for Pro people that can quantify the number of billable hours they will save in Final Cut or Logic and come up with a "return of investment" figure.

The iMacs are a mistery to me, but guess I'm not the target market anyway. (I have a 2018 MBP)

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by whywhywhywhy on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:37PM (#25073113)

> you can build a similarly powerful PC for a much more reasonable amount

It's not even a contest or similarly powerful, spend $3000 on an AMD + Nvidia PC and its significantly more powerful than the $5000 Mac Pro in both CPU and GPU compute.

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