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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 | 3 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Aperocky ◴[12 Nov 20 02:22 UTC] No.25065701[source]▶
ARM is the future, at least in laptops.

Apple lead the fray again, it's incredible.

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1. onedr0p ◴[12 Nov 20 05:05 UTC] No.25066646[source]▶
Apple is hardly the first laptop manufacturer that built a arm based laptop. Microsoft did it before them with the Surface back in 2012. However it's not going to be as popular as Apple's laptop.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT

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2. jb1991 ◴[12 Nov 20 08:03 UTC] No.25067580[source]▶
Apple is rarely "first" with anything (they were nowhere near the first with mp3 players, for example). But they are often first-in-class once they commit to an idea. And then we got the iPod after many other companies tried to also do that in the preceding years. ARM is not new, but Apple committing to this is going to be very disruptive, and ultimately a more impressive implementation, in ways the Surface never was.
3. Aperocky ◴[12 Nov 20 17:06 UTC] No.25071882[source]▶
But it seems that everyone else had the idea that ARM is cheap material and only Apple put in enough effort to make the full potential of both the instruction set and the chip design.