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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 | 8 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.619s | source | bottom
1. musicale ◴[12 Nov 20 03:06 UTC] No.25065953[source]▶
Kind of remarkable for a laptop without a fan. (Infamous fan-hater Steve Jobs would be proud.)

Power/thermal management looks very good - low heat and long battery life without sacrificing performance.

Presumably the Air will have to throttle performance for some workloads, but not in this benchmark apparently.

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2. Wowfunhappy ◴[12 Nov 20 03:49 UTC] No.25066223[source]▶
Was Steve Jobs an infamous fan-hater? What did he do/say?
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3. wmf ◴[12 Nov 20 03:54 UTC] No.25066250[source]▶
Yes, Apple IIs and early Macs had no fans because Jobs wanted them to be silent.
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4. taejavu ◴[12 Nov 20 04:03 UTC] No.25066312[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_III#Design_flaws
5. foobarbazetc ◴[12 Nov 20 04:39 UTC] No.25066511[source]▶
It’s one run and it runs for a couple of minutes, so it’s not going to tell you much about thermal management.
6. kzrdude ◴[12 Nov 20 06:55 UTC] No.25067202{3}[source]▶
He was right in many of his extreme tastes, a fanless computer is so much nicer to work with. Many laptops are silent for common tasks now.
7. kristofferR ◴[12 Nov 20 12:00 UTC] No.25068875[source]▶
Yeah, he wasn't a fan.
8. darkhorse13 ◴[13 Nov 20 13:24 UTC] No.25081871[source]▶
It is honestly crazy how many times Jobs was able to force his personal choices into the designs of Apple products, and then force the entire industry to follow suite thanks to the influence of Apple. And I am not even mad, he was correct (in hindsight) multiple times - styluses, Flash, and so on. Even in death, he may be proven right about his dislike of fans.