Imagine my surprise when I tried this on the 2020 13 inch M1 MacBook Pro and found that it was faster than the Intel MacBook Pro I use every day. When I get a new computer and want to know how fast it is, I usually run one of the scripts we use to build a shipping application, timing how long it takes. So I expected my Intel MacBook Pro, with 12 virtual cores, to handily outperform the M1 chip, which only has four high-performance cores along with its four low-performance, energy-efficient cores. This is why the CPU thermometer window in the Activity Monitor application shows 12 cores on my 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro.īuilding applications with Activity Monitor running on 2019 16 inch MacBook Pro Using applications with many threads, like those I use for building applications, two of these virtual cores can perform about 30-50% more work than a single core. The Intel CPU in my Intel MacBook Pro also has hyper-threading, Intel’s technology that allows each core to behave as two virtual core. After all, they only contain four high-performance CPU cores and four low-performance cores, whereas my 2019 16 inch MacBook Pro has six high-performance cores. My concern was that an M1 MacBook Pro would be underpowered.
Would they have the horsepower required to create Mac and iOS applications, or are the processors too underpowered? Should I purchase an M1 MacBook Pro for our new programmer who starts next week? Then I started to wonder if these new Macs were speedy enough to use for writing code and building applications. I wrote about this in a blog posted last week. My next surprise came when I realized that the two Thunderbolt ports on these M1 Macs have nearly the same combined bandwidth of four ports on the Intel Macs they replaced. This was a pretty dramatic change from her previous Intel MacBook Air, which struggled to get through a couple of classes on Zoom. She kept raving about the battery life because she could get through an entire day of classes and study sessions without having to plug in the power adapter. The first one that entered my life was the 2020 M1 MacBook Air I purchased for my daughter, who is taking classes remotely for her first year of college. If you have read my other blog posts, you will already know that I’m pretty enamored with the new M1 Macs.
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