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From: Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me>
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Subject: Re: initial MacBoo Air M1
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:51:56 -0000 (UTC)
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In message <MJ5tH.95924$bG69.46179@usenetxs.com> Joanna Shuttleworth <js@example.net> wrote:
> On 2020-11-18, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> 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.
>>
>> Surprised Apple didn't put out proper benchmark results in its keynote
>> 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.
>>
>>

> phooey to benchmarks!

> it's the experience that counts, and it's truly amazing

Exactly this.

> Apple's engineers have done an astonishing job with M1

Yep, it certainly seems that way. I cannot wait to get my grubby little
mitts on mine.

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