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To me it’s not the performance that’s the “messiah-of-tech” part of the M1 laptops (have an Air myself). It’s that I can do the same things at the same speed a
by leokennis 5y ago
To me it’s not the performance that’s the “messiah-of-tech” part of the M1 laptops (have an Air myself).
It’s that I can do the same things at the same speed as an Intel MacBook, but:
* The machine is dead silent (literally no sound coming from it)
* The battery life is incredible
I’m not sure if it’s as simple as this, but I guess if they said: we don’t mind blaring fans and 6 hours of battery life, then they could clock the M1 so high it would have truly insane performance.
- foobiekr 5y agoI think the mini and iMac both serve as indicators that this isn’t true - they have identical performance. I’m willing to guess that thermal transport for the SoC isn’t all that good and while a fan would help likely not as much as you’re crediting. ASIC teams design for a specific envelope. I was really hoping the iMac would do as you say.