PC World - USA (2021-03)

14 PCWorld MARCH 2021

NEWS INTEL BENCHMARKS SAY APPLE’S M1 ISN’T FASTER

developers to yet again rewrite software

for yet another new architecture...well,

things will break.

The good news for M1 MacBook users

is these applications and plugins will likely

get fixed eventually. Mind you, this doesn’t

mean it’ll all get fixed for free. We’ve seen

developers use the opportunity (which

might be justified) to fix issues in the next

version—which, by the way, you have to

buy again.

INTEL SKIPPED ACOUSTICS

One point Intel didn’t cover, and we know

why, is acoustics. One of the singular

amazing features of the new MacBook M1’s

Make these photos of people using PCs black and white, add an uplifting sound track, and maybe insert

the smooth voice of Matthew McConaughey as narrator, and you’d have an Apple commercial.

is the near lack of fan noise (it’s there and

you can kick it off by using Topaz Lab’s

products), but every review has properly

praised Apple’s dead silent operation.

That’s an arena in which current PCs lose

hands down.

CONCLUSION

While some will tut-tut that Intel’s digs at

Apple are undignified, we disagree. Apple is

the one who first flung mud when it

unceremoniously dumped Intel overboard,

so it’s within Intel’s rights to fling that mud

back. Nonetheless, we would want to test out

Intel’s more serious hardware compatibility

and battery life claims for ourselves.