Tech Advisor - UK (2021-05)

16 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2021

NEWS ANALYSIS

nonetheless

impressive) apps that

were designed to

take advantage of the

hardware acceleration

inside of Intel’s CPUs.

When you have

optimization for your

hardware, you get

tons of performance

gains. This is the

samemagicthat’s

madeApplesphonesshineforsolong.

CLAIM:M1DOESN’TSUPPORT

ALLTHEFEATURES

Intelalsogivesitselftheleadin Adobe

PremierePro,usingthebetaM1native

versionin AutoReframe,exportingto

H.264andH.265.They’redecentwins,

butcomeon,thecodeis stillin beta

fortheMac.Thatsaid,Intelpointsout

thatimportantfeatureslikeContent

AwareFillareoutrightdisabledonthe

betaversion,andthat’sa concern.If the

nativeversionofPhotoshopcomesout,

andtherearecriticalfeaturesmissing

fromit,that’sa hugeproblemfor

Apple(and Adobe).

GAMING: YOU CAN’T BE

FASTER IF YOU CAN’T RUN IT

For gaming, we see a bit of a back and

forth between the Apple M1 and Core

i7 in games that actually work on the

MacBook. Intel doesn’t let it end there,

though, and decides to embarrass Apple

further by showing the numerous games

where the MacBook scores a 0 because

game support just doesn’t exist. Intel

points out that “countless more” games

“don’t run on the M1”, and then for

good measure, it rushes Apple’s bench

with a list 10 more games you can’t play

on the M1 MacBook:

• Overwatch


• CrysisRemastered


• HaloMCC


• RedDead Redemption 2


• PUBG


• MonsterHunterWorld


• DoomEternal


• MicrosoftFlightSimulator 2020


• ApexLegends


• Rainbow Six Siege