10 PCWorld DECEMBER 2020NEWS MACBOOK AIR IS NOT FASTER THAN 98% OF LAPTOPS
10 PCWorld DECEMBER 2020HAVE SOME DIGNITY, APPLE
But what really infuriates me is there’s just no
reason for Apple to go to such absurd levels
to make the case for its new Arm-based M1 in
the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13”, and
Mac mini.
The M1 chip, built using TSMC’s most
advanced 5nm process, looks to be a truly
solid tour de force of technical prowess that
one should expect of one of the richest,
for-profit corporations in human history. It’s
simply going to sing—just sing—for
applications that are optimized for it. And,
yes, there will indeed be like-for-like
applications where it is indeed faster than
many, many x86-based, Windows laptops.
But there will also be many, many tasksthat you can’t simply run on these Macs too.
And there are likely to be cases where
performance might just suck too, compared
to an x86 PC laptop.
Now, if you are into Macs and all that
Apple offers, you should definitely consider
the new Macs over older Intel-based Macs. I
say that because I’m pretty sure buying an
Intel-based Mac is like buying a ticket to
stand on a deserted island (go.pcworld.
com/disl) so you can wave at Apple as it sails
away in a party boat.
So, have some dignity Apple, and stop
with the trolling just to get attention and
hopefully sway the 93 out of 100 people who
prefer to buy Windows laptops over macOS
laptops every year.