Apple M1 – Ten years in the making

Former Apple kernel engineer details how the M1 was 10 years in the making

Former Apple engineer details how the magic of M1 Mac performance began 10 years ago

Conversation 4 comments

  • illuminated

    05 January, 2021 - 12:31 pm

    <p>History is cool but I hate manipulative titles. The magic of M1 performance… I mean right away I am supposed to be blown away by M1. </p>

    • bdollerup

      Premium Member
      06 January, 2021 - 5:44 am

      <blockquote><a href="#605773"><em>In reply to illuminated:</em></a><em> It's an article published in 9to5Mac. I'm not surprised by the overly positive headline. 😉 Don't get me wrong, the M1 is a solid achievement, but ithere no "magic" …… </em></blockquote><p><br></p>

    • Greg Green

      06 January, 2021 - 10:36 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#605773">In reply to illuminated:</a></em></blockquote><p>Yes, i think you should be blown away. The bottom tier MacBook Air M1 can compete with the middle and top tier intel i5 and i7 MacBooks. The Mac mini M1 ($700) can compete and sometimes beat apple products costing 3 or 4 times more. This is like the late 1970s, Honda vs GM.</p><p><br></p><p>compared with Qualcomm’s failures at a desktop os chip, this is even more amazing. Apple users will have no regrets leaving intel behind, as the performance improvement rate for apple’s chips lately has been substantially greater than for intel’s chips.</p>

  • Paul Thurrott

    Premium Member
    06 January, 2021 - 10:11 am

    <p>Um, yeah.</p><p><br></p><h4><a href="https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/mac-and-macos/194308/this-is-how-apple-will-transition-macs-to-a-series-chips&quot; target="_blank" style="color: rgb(188, 182, 173); –darkreader-inline-color:#b9b3aa;" data-darkreader-inline-color="">This is How Apple Will Transition Macs to its A-Series Chips (Premium)</a></h4><h4><br></h4><p>This is from over two years ago, btw. :)</p>

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