Poll: *** The official 2020 MacBook Air/13" MacBook Pro thread (it has the M1 chip and everything!) ***

[chef-borjan]

Yeah. A lot of people often dismiss burst performance as though it doesn't matter, and it doesn't if you're gaming or video converting. It just shows how snappy your device is at doing normal stuff, which is often what most people care about anyway.

Agreed.

And for the vast majority of us, on the odd occasion there is a large processor intensive task (maybe a video export), we will note that it takes 30mins and be happy that we have such a portable device that can do the job in 'just half an hour'. I'm not going to be sitting here cursing the fact the Pro's can do it in 15mins.

 

[Spit]

Just got my DPD notification that mine is being delivered tomorrow.

 

[Spit]

Surprised no reviews yet.

 

[HACO]

Surprised no reviews yet.

I also assumed the NDA would be lifted today but someone on YouTube said it's tomorrow. A little strange that it's lifted AFTER people may get the device, so the YouTubers would post unboxing after users. I assume they're not very happy about that.

 

[Broken Hope]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1328451597446295571

 

[HACO]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1328451597446295571

Single is also out:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1328453127209504771

Inline with SPEC results from Anandtech (of course it was going to be as SPEC and Cinebench have always correlated very well).

 

[MagicBoy]

I also assumed the NDA would be lifted today but someone on YouTube said it's tomorrow. A little strange that it's lifted AFTER people may get the device, so the YouTubers would post unboxing after users. I assume they're not very happy about that.

Boo Hoo.

 

[LiE]

Pretty decent score for the entry level chip.

 

[HACO]

Pretty decent score for the entry level chip.

Apparently the user was running it on battery (then complained why the battery is draining too fast )

 

[LiE]

Apparently the user was running it on battery (then complained why the battery is draining too fast )

Derp. You mean it won’t do 20 hours cinebench on a loop? Sounds rubbish.

 

[chef-borjan]

I’m seeing some reports that the machines are hitting just 45C under load...

And that’s both the MBP and Air!

gah, we need the pro reviews to come out!

 

[HACO]

SSD benchmarks are out too. Looks like a very fast PCIe 3.0.

 

[Throrik]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcXfDk2PISU

These guys did some tests, but I couldn't handle watching much of them I'm afraid haha.

 

[HACO]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcXfDk2PISU

These guys did some tests, but I couldn't handle watching much of them I'm afraid haha.

We're too old for this crap, a good writeup review has become a thing of the past.

 

[LiE]

Will be interesting to see how playable WoW is on the M1 chip - https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/mac-support-update-november-16/207927

 

[HACO]

Will be interesting to see how playable WoW is on the M1 chip - https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/mac-support-update-november-16/207927

It was very playable even on integrated Intel chips. M1 would do it without breaking a sweat.

 

[LiE]

It was very playable even on integrated Intel chips. M1 would do it without breaking a sweat.

WoW running smooth at decent settings on a fanless MBA would be really good for a bit of casual gaming.

 

[Feek]

These guys did some tests, but I couldn't handle watching much of them I'm afraid haha.

Five minutes was too much for me.

We're too old for this crap, a good writeup review has become a thing of the past.

I'm looking forward to seeing some proper subjective reviews over the next day or so.

 

[Throrik]

Five minutes was too much for me.

I think you managed longer than me, I scrubbed through it to see if there was going to be anything interesting but it seemed focused on video editing export/timeline scrubbing again, which isn't something I'm personally interested in.

 

[Rilot]

So, World of Warcraft's latest patch has it running native on M1. I'm really interested to see the performance as I'm considering a new MacBook soon.
Can someone with one of the new Macs run it and see how it is?