Yes, that’s right, no full-screen iOS or iPad apps at all. There is no default tool-tip that explains how to replicate common iOS interactions like swipe-from-edge - instead a badly formatted cheat sheet is buried in a menu. The current iOS app experience on an M1 machine running Big Sur is almost comical it’s so silly. That, however, is where the compliments end. I even ran an iOS-based graphics benchmark which showed just fine. Benchmarks run on iOS apps show that they perform natively with no overhead. Apps install from the App Store and run smoothly, without incident. That’s the kindest thing I can say about it. The iOS experience on the M1 machines is…present. It feels like an iOS device in all the best ways.Īt the chip level, it also is an iOS device. That’s what moving to this M1 MacBook feels like after using other Macs.Įvery click is more responsive. You’ve been carrying the load so long you didn’t know how heavy it was. If you’ve ever dealt with ongoing pain from a condition or injury, and then had it be alleviated by medication, therapy or surgery, you know how the sudden relief feels. One illustration I have been using to describe what this will feel like to a user of current MacBooks is that of chronic pain. That’s the best way I can describe it succinctly.

And it does it while using a fraction of the power. And even then only with powerful dedicated cards like the 5500M or VEGA II.Ĭompiling projects like WebKit produce better build times than nearly any machine (hell the M1 Mac Mini beats the Mac Pro by a few seconds).

Video editing and rendering is super performant, only falling behind older machines when it leverages the GPU heavily.

Macbook pro gpu comparison chart