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I agree that people attribute too much magic to M1. I cringed when the speed advantage was attributed to faster atomic refcounts. However, don't underestimate
by pornel 6y ago
I agree that people attribute too much magic to M1. I cringed when the speed advantage was attributed to faster atomic refcounts.
However, don't underestimate Apple's ability to take incremental improvements and make great products out of them:
> No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
MacBook Air has a desirable form factor, 2-day battery life, reasonable price, and is actually powerful enough to stream and edit video, play some games, and doesn't sound like a helicopter while doing it.
This is a major breakthrough right now. You literally can't get any other laptop that is fanless, and has this price, battery life, and performance. It used to be a "choose two" situation.
- webmobdev 6y agoApple has some great engineers, and do produce some great products. Completely agree. And with the new MacBook Air, I agree with everything you said except the battery life - the 2 day battery life is only true for "light" computing. Do any heavy computing, like compiling on Xcode, and the battery life comes down drastically, and may be nearly comparable to other Intel / AMD laptop (ARM processors do beat x86 processors in power consumption). That said, I do completely agree with you that the new Apple processors with its associated products will increase Apple's profit and even its consumer base. So much that the loss of "insignificant" consumers like me, who care more about computing freedom and avoiding closed systems won't really matter to them. Apple's target consumers are no longer the tech savvy.