[Irinikus]

Here's the latest edition to my Mac Family!



I immediately installed Blender 3.2 Alpha on both the MacBook Pro and My Mac Pro 2013 to compare notes!
I used my CM-2 node board model as the test file for the test and I rendered it on both machines using the cycles render engine with denoising 





The new MacBook Pro was 3.15 times as fast as my Mac Pro 2013 and it's fans didn't even spin up during the test!

Here's the MacBook Pro's drive performance according to the ATTO Disk Benchmark:





It's blisteringly fast!!!

[Raion]

The M1 is one of the widest production ARM cores and currently is one of the fastest consumer grade CPUs, despite my dislike of Apple this is an uncontested fact. I suspect that future Apple silicon will be even more insane in terms of raw power.

[Irinikus]

I truly think that this is the start of an exciting time for Apple and it's only the beginning!

I've never been pro laptops, as they've always underperformed in my opinion. (For the first time you have a laptop that actually makes sense! Loads of power and a 20+ hours of battery life!)

The laptop that I got is the sweet spot in this regard! Offering the best battery life vs performance combo.

The main reason for this purchase is that I'm now starting to get more involved in the administrative side of my work and this will come in handy, allowing me to work anywhere! (And most importantly eliminating the need to use the work's crappy machines!)

[lunatic]

Yeah, that thing is a beast. It's really expensive, but you actually get some pretty impressive machine for all that money.

[Shiunbird]

Yea - there's a faster CPU from Intel now, I've been seeing some reviews, some MSI laptop with a 3080 Ti.
But it goes on 130W for like 5% more performance compared to the M1 at 30-some watts.

Incredible indeed.

I am a bit heartbroken to be leaving Apple right now, but there have been too many disappointments over the years. I'm saving for a Talos and notebook-wise, I guess I will get something small and light, and remote into my home machines.

I'm curious to see M1s with ECC support, though.

edit: brainfart.

[lunatic]

I am not telling anyone to buy Apple if they don't like these products.
But honestly, the current line of Macbooks is the biggest upgrade I had in many years. I was really skeptical about the move to ARM, but I am absolutely amazed how fast and at the same time how cool my M1 Macbook runs. I don't like much of the business strategy Apple has, but this is some great product.

If anyone is wondering, I got the 14" M1max with 32GB RAM and 4GB SSD.

[weblacky]

I am not telling anyone to buy Apple if they don't like these products.
But honestly, the current line of Macbooks is the biggest upgrade I had in many years. I was really skeptical about the move to ARM, but I am absolutely amazed how fast and at the same time how cool my M1 Macbook runs. I don't like much of the business strategy Apple has, but this is some great product.

If anyone is wondering, I got the 14" M1max with 32GB RAM and 4GB SSD.

I agree on the hardware but the software is my current problem.  I use Ada and FSF GCC with Apple's LLVM CLANG to link for a project I write.  Now after 7 years of work...they pull this and I'm not even sure my current GCC 11 compiler will run and produce a valid intel binary (nor will rosetta 2 run it)...nor when Apple will pull Rosetta2 out from under us the SAME WAY THEY PULLED ROSETTA (PPC) AFTER 2 Years!?!??!?!

Yes, these are the risks of using an "unpopular" language...but all this had been fixed years ago...now I'm back to square one and frozen in fear.

I'm hopeful...but not too much.  Also the total of lack of anyone (outside of UTM) doing x86 virtualization is the biggest failure I've even seen in customer migration.  I went to apple to get a UNIX base that was well-supported in the industry and ran Windows so I could choose whatever I need/want for a single machine to run practically anything. 


Now it's not an "anything" machine...that's a downgrade.  I can understand the platform change...but without a better emulation plan...devs that use Apple for NON-MacOS and MacOS dev now just got gut-punched.

Not sure what's what anymore....

[lunatic]

Right. That's the old problem with all the Apple products. They keep releasing new stuff and keep obsoleting old stuff. They always did that. That's why you shouldn't fall for their nice presentations. Apple is a marketing machine.
I would really prefer it if they could slow down their release cycles, but apparently it's way more profitable the way they do it. They keep reinventing the wheel and sometimes this gives good results and sometimes it all gets worse. I often wish they would go for the Apache approach to software more often. Make it stable, fix and optimize, but don't rewrite or reinvent. Maybe I am too old to get angry about this, but if I could get angry about some software, this Apple insanity of doing things might get my blood boiling. ;-)