Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!kreme.dont-email.me!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lewis Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: initial MacBoo Air M1 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:51:05 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Miskatonic U Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: g.kreme@gmail.don-t-email-me.com Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:51:05 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: kreme.dont-email.me; posting-host="a4148fe67ba4472862bf41e40a473e5c"; logging-data="11947"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19q5vlOTFx7BWfziRcNGkA0" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:90o/pi0W9K1b6FrozuefKGjbECw= X-Face: )^b5"R:T7U>9~:PEn3YkzMfW*[b1qKeU.fP9C8~8HpU9}lA&6`bH1z X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Mail-Copies-To: nobody Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:135019 In message JF Mezei wrote: > On 2020-11-17 13:01, Lewis wrote: >> From a friend with the low-end MacBook Pro (base model $999): 4K video >> stream editing in real time with no dropouts, 11 hours of streaming >> YouTube video on battery. > Have now seen proper benchmarks (more coming I am sure) and the > performance compared to previous Mac Books is much higher, and thermal > thorottling on the fan-less MacBook Air only starts after about 10 > miunutes of heavy duty use. Yes, like when editing a 4K video? > Surprised Apple didn't put out proper benchmark results in its keynote Are you really? Or are you just doing your usual FUD trolling? Because Apple does not put out "proper benchmark results" and never has. Mostly because nearly no one cares but also because they are mostly meaningless. What matters i s "how much faster can I do X" and there was plenty of that. > if the machines were so good. The keynote made it look like a lot of > marketing vapourware with their meaningless performance graphs without > any numbers/scale. No, that is you once again demonstrating an inability to PAY ATTENTION, LISTEN, and LEARN. -- According to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle, chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.