It’s also something to realise that this is the puniest M1 MacBook Pro Apple will ever release, yet already it often outperforms much pricier Intel models. Frequently, the M1 beat the i9 MacBook Pro 16in too – which costs twice as much. Only when we ran unoptimised Intel apps did the older MacBook Pro sometimes edge ahead, but even then only marginally. The M1 – with half the RAM – stomped all over its 13in Intel i5 predecessor. What’s more striking is how this Mac compared to Intel MacBook Pro models. (This was one of the few tasks where we got the fan to regularly spin up.) In our HandBrake video encoding tests, the MacBook Pro finished in 85–90 per cent of the time the MacBook Air took – although this encoding happened to the dulcet tones of a fan. The time taken for resource-intensive tasks is lower. In general use, this extra grunt is hard to spot, but run a load of benchmarks or time tasks and pore over a resulting spreadsheet of figures (WIRED reviewers know how to live) and the gap between the two machines becomes clearer.įPS scores are higher. That last point is important, because it makes this machine more performant than the MacBook Air (above) for sustained, demanding tasks.
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