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Fiddling around on an M1 MBA it felt faster than my 2020 16" MBP. It's half the weight, seems to get double the battery life, and costs less than 1/3.

I just can't even imagine what the gap is going to look like when Apple really refines this down.

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>It's half the weight

Its 70% the weight at 70% the volume of the 16". What is the point of comparing the weight of a 13" and a 16" laptop?

It is faster despite the lower battery capacity and thermals. In fact, the Macbook air has no fan.

You should compare it to other than the old Apple laptops. The Ryzen models, such as ThinkPad T14 are very fast, and if you want to go tenfold from there, there is no comparison with the modern Ryzen desktop CPUs. Why Apple always failed with Intel and its thermals is why they feel so slow compared to the M1.

A 2020 16" Macbook Pro isn't old by any measure. This argument seems disingenuous.

But they are extremely bad with their thermals and Intel is way slower than whatever AMD is pushing right now. The thing is Apple just made quite mediocre hardware. And now they're back where the competition is.

Intel is not way slower than AMD in the mobile space.

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