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: 0s | source

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faitswulff ◴[12 Nov 20 04:22 UTC] No.25066407[source]▶

This really flips the argument that Mac hardware is overpriced and underpowered on its head. Now Apple computers are a premium product from a performance perspective, as well.

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silly-silly ◴[12 Nov 20 04:26 UTC] No.25066438[source]▶

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Its not though, The 16 inch has known performance bottlenecks on both thermal and power draw.

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arthurcolle ◴[12 Nov 20 04:51 UTC] No.25066570[source]▶

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Tell me more, I'm dying to go to the Apple Store and get this replaced.

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1. silly-silly ◴[12 Nov 20 05:41 UTC] No.25066833[source]▶

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Start adobe premier, any significantly complex scene and render it. The system will throttle down to 1.2ghz, sometimes even 1 ghz .

I'm testing on is the 2019 core i9 2.3 ghz. Apple "Genius" bar tells me this is expected, no replacement in warranty. Maybe the 2020 is better, but after getting this as an answer I wont be buying another apple macbook.

The prior 2018 Core i9 Apple MacBook Pro had previous issues with insufficient power supply to the CPU core (this might be fixed, but I can't even sustain it due to thermal throttling, so I can't really tell).

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