Lol the best laptop review ever.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev wrt your latest Skynet painting. I actually feel much the same, but it's a separate thread and argument. I can run Resolve and FCPX on their system and nothing else - treat it like the appliance it is, like a linear editing system from the 80's. We still have the choice to compartmentalize. You remind me of RMS somehow (Stallman), I met him back in 1996 at a conference. All his points were correct, and he wore sandals with mismatched socks.

@radikalfilm

I think you do not get the point.

Apple is making unprecedented closed and encrypted ecosystem, making repairs, upgrades, info restoration almost impossible. It is made with such intention, not by accident. This system will very soon start to channel all your coordinates, files, apps and anything that government would like to see (same way as any NSA or CIA guy can now dig up into your iCloud backup on daily basis). And you won't be able to fight with it, nor disable it.

Main issue with tests is that they are leading to the biggest tragedy in computer industry. Where presstitutes and paid for bloggers, as well as narrow specialists (who constantly tell you how politics are bad) are leading horde to the cliff.

You are not just getting another Mac, you are sponsoring new infrastructure. Where you will be that fish on a dish.

It won't be abstract Skynet, it will be Google and Apple in very near time who will operate strike drones above your house and whom will routinely inform you each day that "such and such" had been detected as dangerous and disturbing for stability (add here new stuff like "had new dangerous strain of COVID 2021", and such), but our system prevented bad consequences, please watch the nice hole in place of his house.

Developers I talk about told that especially since late 2019 Apple tone inside turned almost literally to Nazi like style. Where people who do not agree with course (including political course, racial course), who not agree with horrible decisions are being treated like enemies.

Small fun fact

Around 85% of all computers used to develop Mac and iOS software are hackintoshes (in mid to large companies).

With COVID it become even more. For some firms outside US it is close to 100%.

Move to their own silicone will allow Apple to get their hand on this nice high marginal market as they will be blocking their newer tools to work on non Apple hardware.

In order to ensure security and continuing stability....

All is super inconsistent

As I being told it is VERY important to not hit any filter or operation that is CPU intensive for M1 to be good.

Hence almost all FCP tests Apple asked to make are simple transitions and small color adjustments, plus fast hardware accelerated compression.

Throttling

Idea to show build with lot of small files as independent CPU test, it is not

He should use identical external fast Thunderbolt SSD.

Render time is nice, but it is also not all CPU cores, it is media accelerator job to do encoding and GPU all else

Premiere is not very nice for now due to not using GPU and accelerator as needed

Games suck as GPU small and is mobile class

Battery life claims are false

So, nice and coordinated with Apple review, as it is not made for so hardcore Apple fans

Reviews stink

It is like bunch of idiots who make them.

Also they try now to prize such SSD speeds - 256 GB SSD

• M1 MacBook Air: 2,190.1 MB/s write, 2,676.4 MB/s read (on benchmark in post above SSD size is bigger)
• 2019 MacBook Air: 1,007.1 MB/s write, 1,319.7 MB/s read

Note that ti is useless SLC cache speeds, not normal test, and it is nothing to write home about.

@radikalfilm

It is on benchmark.

As I said, all top hardware firms do this, and all big benchmark authors LIVE on this.

But they also have special schemes to making it almost impossible to catch them legally. As I understand Apple people working on it are not legally working at Apple or their direct contractor at the time. And code transitions and transfers, as well as discussion, happen very similar to how CIA agents communicate on foreign soil.

So, even if it'll be huge leak and scandal - benchmark author just declare that it is their new contractors team working at adding support for new processor and go prove otherwise.

DxO is very famous for helping adjust and optimize for their photo and video benchmarks (it means that they tell intricate details on how to do this).

AnTuTu for example had been hunted by Google on request of Qualcomm and other US companies, as it is not controlled by US and EU company.

Some more on Apple methods

The first footnote on their website (Mini page) - they measured performance per watt as peak (!) performance to average (!) power consumption.

This is scam, guys.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev When you write "worked with all major benchmark makers to write totally custom code for M1."

should I take that along the lines of #ifdef __arm_M1, where the code is optimized for the architecture (unified memory, etc), but otherwise functionally identical? Of course you can't answer this first hand. That's not something to blame them for, it's like seeing #ifdef __sparcv9 in old code. Until their architecture is well known to developers, it's understandable they'd be eager to put their best foot forward. Unless there's cheating.