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Gruber isn't always right, but he's right here. I use Macs and Thinkpads for work. My M1 Mac is by far the fastest and also has by far the best battery life and uses the fans the least often. x86 is way behind ARM right now.

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I recently started a project with a client that shipped me a laptop. It's one of the new MBP's with an M1 Pro. Even with all the crapware this client loves to pile on these machines (standard enterprise MDM fare), this is still by far the fastest computer I've used. The fact that this thing is noticeably faster than my "main" work machine which has the same amount of ram, zero company crapware (oh how i love working for small and med sized corps) but an i7. The i7 machine is fast, chews through anything that I throw at it, but the M1 Pro is just faster, like noticeably faster all-around, not just under certain workloads.

I've thrown around the idea of dropping big money ($4.8k the way I specced it) on a Mac Studio with an M1 Max. Up until now the idea was silly considering I have a perfectly good Macbook Pro from work without any spyware that I get for free. But dammit this M1 loaner might have pushed me over the edge.

i have a mac studio it’s fine, i was underwhelmed after all the hype. i still spend too much time waiting on slow web apps like gmail and google docs. main value prop is driving up to 5 displays

I believe the main value proposition for most of its target market is its insane video and vfx rendering speed. I have a fully-optioned M1 Max MacBook Pro and a fully-optioned Mac Studio. I primarily use the Mac Studio to render projects that I prepare on the MBP. My Mac Studio has cumulatively saved me days of time I would have otherwise spent waiting for things to finish.

Why did you get the Mac Studio?

$4000 macbook $4000 mac studio what's the difference if you WFH, I'll take the extra ram and displays. I'm a web developer and build times are improved, especially while screen sharing over zoom (which is a hog), and chrome responsiveness is improved too just not as much as people said

I have a 14" M1 MBP from work. I've never purchased a Mac for personal use, but that's going to change when I can justify replacing my Thinkpad. They made an impressive machine while also taking away all of my hangups with the hardware (keyboard, ports, touchbar).

Feel exactly the same. I have an M1 16” MBP from work. At first it felt way too big, now I love it.

My personal machine is an XPS 13” on ubuntu, which is old now, and feels old (slow).

But it’s the touchpad, screen, keyboard and battery that make it so hard to swap between.

I have the 16inch and I have never heard it’s fan. Not even while doing some intense multitasking in a room at 30 degrees Celsius. If they had told me this was possible two years ago I would have laughed

But that's not the point made in the article. Is this the reason apple arm laptops don't show up in comparisons?

I mean...he made two points:

1) The Apple Silicon machines are very, very good, in many cases better than their Intel competition.

2) Many tech sites aren't treating them as comparable, and are still treating Windows laptops as the "default", "real" laptops.

Sounds like green throw was addressing point #1, while you're looking at point #2?

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