Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
for Hardware 2.0
| October 18, 2021
| Topic: Apple
We just got the first glimpse of Apple’s new MacBook Pros running the new M1 Pro and M1 Max Apple Silicon chips.
And they’re powerhouses.
The performance improvements compared to Apple’s previous-generation MacBook Pro laptops running Intel chips are stellar. We’re talking high-performance components delivering incredible performance and offering hours of extra battery life compared to its Intel predecessor.
It blows away the previous-gen MacBook Pro.
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MacBook Pro with M1 Max features
But here’s the thing, it also blows away PC laptops.
The amount of power — especially performance-per-watt — that Apple is reporting from the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips is stunning. Being able to get ten extra hours of run time from the 16-inch models is just unbelievable, and being able to do this on a system where cooling doesn’t sound like a jumbo jet taking off is a feat of engineering itself.
But it leaves me pondering.
What’s been going on in the PC laptop arena all this time?
Why haven’t Intel and Microsoft, and the PC OEMs, with all their might, not done something similar for the Windows market?
How has Apple been able to outperform all the big names in CPUs and GPUs and deliver such amazing performance-per-watt?
I think I have the answer, and Windows users are not going to like it.
The Windows PC market is all about the cheap end of the market.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
for Hardware 2.0
| October 18, 2021
| Topic: Apple