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

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1080 points antipaul | 1 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | source
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WoodenChair ◴[12 Nov 20 01:47 UTC] No.25065476[source]▶
Their line from the video about being the highest performance chip in single core appears to be true. This is of course a synthetic benchmark but the single core result is very promising. Note that the single core and multi core scores exceed the top-of-the-line 16” MacBook Pro (9th generation 8-core i9 2.4 ghz). I actually made the call to sell my 16” for the new Air yesterday. It’s looking like a good call. Glad I’m selling my 16” while it still has some value.

You can see all Air results so far here: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?q=MacBookAir10%2...

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S_A_P ◴[12 Nov 20 02:02 UTC] No.25065571[source]▶
Damnit I have to decide the same thing. I’m really happy with my 16” mbp for once and I’m not sure if I want to get a smaller screen and give up windows support (for now) I feel like Ms could be convinced to make a version for Apple silicone if it keeps its performance advantage.
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minxomat ◴[12 Nov 20 02:05 UTC] No.25065590[source]▶
Good news is Parallels announced a closer colab with Apple to bring x86 virt to M1, too. They demo'd Parallels running a linux VM at WWDC, but the upcoming release will also support seamless Windows virt again.
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LeoPanthera ◴[12 Nov 20 02:06 UTC] No.25065599[source]▶
That demo shows an ARM VM with Linux for ARM running inside it. There have been no announcements or demos of Intel emulation, besides Rosetta 2.
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minxomat ◴[12 Nov 20 02:10 UTC] No.25065625[source]▶
Parallels announced a full version of Parallels Desktop (which is the Win-on-macOS product) at the same time as the event on Nov 10: https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-apple-sili...
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sibartlett ◴[12 Nov 20 02:51 UTC] No.25065874[source]▶
No mention there of it supporting x86 on M1.
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1. minxomat ◴[12 Nov 20 02:54 UTC] No.25065887[source]▶
Indeed. Might be misleading marketing. Docker meanwhile mentioned they will launch with ARM containers only, but are expecting QEMU to be able to run x86 (probably badly).