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What was the "wow" factor of M2 Macs over their M1 counterparts? M1 absolutely floored naysayers who didn't think an ARM chip could be "good" M2 seems to be j
by IntelMiner 2y ago
What was the "wow" factor of M2 Macs over their M1 counterparts?
M1 absolutely floored naysayers who didn't think an ARM chip could be "good"
M2 seems to be just M1 "but we made it a little faster!"
The fact M3 and M4 aren't even really filtering down into most of their computer offerings definitely doesn't help
- gizajob 2y agoIn that instance the M1 / M2 Macs aren't exactly a wholly new category of product, just MacBooks in basically the same form as they've been since the Powerbook, but now with an M1 chip. I meant the actual first release of a novel product – iPhone / iPad / Watch, all of which were good enough but became brilliantly usable after a couple of iterations. Also, I'm writing this on an M3 Pro MacBook. Totally awesome machine, like Platonically good laptop, and doubly so now they ditched that "hat on a pig" Touch Bar and returned to actual function keys...BUT...I have so many cores I can barely even count them in htop and doing things like rendering in iMovie or adjusting the size of 100Mb RAW photos in Preview is STILL SINGLE THREADED. Preview even threw up a rotating beachball of doom and froze the other day when adjusting the size of a single large photo. Totally totally amazed a division of software engineers haven't been laid on to at least rewrite the utterly-parallelizable parts of the native apps on Mac OS. FFS.