Re:The Apple A15 SoC Performance Review: Faster and More Eff...
by EricE on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @01:36PM
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It's not just a performance leap. The whole machine feels a hell of a lot more responsive. Or tight. Or like it's reading your mind - it's hard to describe. It's just snappier, and it's not a subtle difference either.
It also delivers incredible battery life, and runs a lot cooler so you don't have annoying fans or face throttling as much, if at all, under load. No more cases hot enough to burn skin.
If you think you understand the M1 just by looking at benchmarks or reviews, you are sadly mistaken. Use one of these machines for a couple of days and you will more than likely not want to give it up.
Heck there are developers ditching their iMac Pro's in favor of M1 Mac Mini's for everything but long compiles. When Apple releases desktop versions of their SOC things should get stupid spicy. And I'm very much looking forward to it.
Nothing changes in the way people use their computers. It's a performance leap, but there have been many such in the past. Back when PCs and laptops got 2 cores instead of 1, "real" multitasking was finally possible and performance doubled almost overnight. That was IMHO a bigger leap than M1, but I don't hear people calling Core 2 Duo and Athlon X2 "revolutionary".