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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: 0.218s | source
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uniclaude ◴[12 Nov 20 02:58 UTC] No.25065918[source]▶
In this day and age of Electron apps, I would say that RAM matters as much or more than CPU performance but seeing these results competes the story. M1 is good and has the potential to power pro laptops.
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1. kondro ◴[12 Nov 20 03:10 UTC] No.25065983[source]▶
With the storage IO right on the SoC I can imagine swapping to feel especially snappy as well.

Although it's worth remembering the m1 is just Apple's CPU for their low-end machines. They haven't announced their high-end 13" & 16" MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac Pros.

Also, I know Electron has a history of high-memory, but right now my Slack client is currently running at 500MB and my VS Code windows (3 projects) at < 1.5GB.

And even though my current MBP16 is spec'd at 64GB RAM, I don't think 16GB would probably feel all that slow these days.