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M1 MacBooks: Peformance Kings?

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 My review of the M1 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and MacBook mini. These are the best laptops to buy from Apple right now.


Performance

I saw some test on these laptops, and I couldn't believe it. And, that's why I rechecked myself a lot of time but, the clear fact is that these three laptops are beasts. The benchmarks are awesome. The single-core benchmarks are better than Intel and AMD by a long-shot. And the MacBook Pro and Mini don't throttle at all. You can run it as long as you want to but they, just don't. The MacBook Air does throttle after 8-9 minutes, but that is also very shocking because MacBook Air does not have a fan and laptop which don't have fans start throttling in second so I don't know how they are doing it but, whatever it is it is amazing.




Apple's software + hardware = insanity

I saw the build-up time for some Apple applications on these devices, and those numbers just keep blowing my mind. The build-up time is somehow matching with a Hackintosh. What fucking magic has Apple done! And for Final Cut, these MacBooks are giving the same time as a 16' MacBook. I really want to know how are they doing it! Someone, please tell me!





Non-Native Apps and GPU

Adobe Premiere is not optimized for these MacBooks yet but, I saw the result anyway. Can you believe if I tell you that it can run all of your videos without even skipping one frame? I had such low expectations because these apps are not for these laptops right now, but they just keep surprising me. I saw the GPU as well, and it is good but, not great. Like it is not as good as the 16' MacBook but, it will surely get better with time.


Battery, Apps and Ports

The thing I really wanted to check was Apple's claim to run MacBook Pro at half-brightness for 20 hours of video-plack on one sing charge, and they were not lying. It is real. The screen is a bit dark, so I checked at 250 nits, and one more amazing stunt by Apple was in front of my eyes.  I always knew that there will be developers coming for Apple Silicon, but, I knew the rate at which they would. There are so many developers already who can do such amazing things so apps will never be a problem in Apple Silicon. Now, there are only two ports in MacBook Pro and mini. Earlier there was an option to get 4 but, it is only 2 this time.

Displays and Air vs Pro 

All three of these can connect to three screens each(sidecar included) which is great but, there will be a few connectivity problems for the developers as there are only two ports so they will have to go for MacBook mini. Now, MacBook Air is the best Air version of MacBook ever, and MacBook Pro does not really stand out as a Pro. You can photoshop, edit videos or even code on MacBook Air and that is the laptop for most of the people.

Should this be your next laptop?

The aesthetics for these laptops look unchanged, and the webcam still isn't great, but the performance is the key in this laptop. If you care about GPUs, wait for some time, and I am sure they can drastically improve. If you are a Windows user, we have Lakefield and Ryzen 5000 coming up so you can see those before buying this. But, if you buy this laptop just keep in mind when you give the control of hardware and software to Apple, they can do amazing things but, you will lose out on stuff and get some unnecessary thing as well like butterfly keyboard or touch-bars. You just kind of lose control of your hardware.


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