Don’t let Apple cover your eyes: It’s true that the new MacBook Air is 98% faster than personal laptops

Tram Ho

Last night, during the launch of the new fanless MacBook AIr that uses the M1 chip, Apple claimed it was “98% faster than personal laptops”.

More specifically, Apple has stated that the new MacBook Air uses a custom M1 chip based on its ARM architecture that is 98% faster than all personal laptops sold this year.

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The new MacBook Air uses a self-developed M1 chip, priced from $ 999.

Often times, when a company makes such a claim, it publishes benchmarks, performance tests, or factual details about what they base on that marketing claim. This is to prevent users from misunderstanding as well as touching competitor manufacturers.

The Apple website then repeats the claim by stating: “The M1 is faster than the chip in 98% of personal laptops sold in the past year” . The website also includes a detailed note saying: “The test was conducted by Apple in October 2020 using a pre-production 13-inch MacBook Pro system with an Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM. Performance is measured. using industry standard selected benchmarks PC configuration from publicly available sales data for the past 12 months Performance tests performed using computer instrument systems and reflect the approximate performance of the MacBook Pro. “

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The detailed statement is published by Apple on the homepage.

 

It sounds impressive. But Apple has not said what tests it is based on, and has not even said where the comparable laptops will be sourced.

Does that mean the new fanless MacBook Air will be faster than Asus’ Ryzen 400-powered Zephyrus G14, or Zephyrus G14 with GeForce RTX 2060? Or does it mean the new MacBook Air is faster than Alienware’s Area 51M model? Or faster than the Creator 17 laptop using MSI’s miniLED panels?

No, the answer is definitely no. Can not.

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Apple’s claims may even make it misleading that new laptops are 98% faster than desktop computers, which is sometimes mistakenly referred to as a PC.

So what is Apple’s “performance” claim based on? CPU performance? GPU performance? Performance running Windows? Or is it using the same application running on both platforms? Or performance at Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War or Fortnite ?

While tech experts have absolutely no idea what Apple is relying on for its claims, it is up to 98% certain that any of the laptops listed above will ” crushed “MacBook Air” when performing any of these tasks.

According to PCworld, when Apple made its statement, it’s more likely that the company is comparing the new M1 chip with Intel-based processors, from Atom to Celeron N or Core i3 and above, all with integrated graphics. But by not defining the word “performance”, they become a pure marketing message. And is it really fair to compare a $ 999 MacBook with a $ 150 one? Because these $ 150 personal computers are included in 98% of all laptops sold.

There’s no doubt that the M1 will be impressive, but it would probably make more sense if it compared to the eight-core performance of the Ryzen 4000 or the GeForce RTX 2060.

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The SoC M1, built on a 5nm process, is likely to be a very impressive chip.

The M1 chip, built using TSMC’s most advanced 5nm process, appears to be a solid foundation choice in the technical prowess that users can expect from one of the richest tech conglomerates on the calendar. human history. And indeed there will be applications it will be a lot faster than Windows laptops based on x86 architecture.

But, there are also lots of tasks that you simply can’t run on these Mac computers. And likely, some applications will experience poor performance compared to laptops using x86.

Still, respect Apple a bit. Because with a market share of about 8.5% in the laptop market in the second quarter of 2020, we can at least hope that the M1 will shake the views of nearly 92/100 people who like to buy laptops. Windows than MacOS laptops.

Refer to PCworld

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