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  • 13-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon M1 review: Unprecedented power and battery for the ...

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    s.metcalf said:

     There are no conditions "required and imposed" by Apple, other than an embargo time and date.
    Interesting.  But still, you don't want to be too critical right?  Don't want to get on Apple's bad side lest you get dropped from their approved reviewers list?  I'm not suggesting there's an unspoken arrangement or unintentional bias, but I do believe there's the potential for both of those things.  And that's enough for me to not put too much into these launch-day reviews.

    I prefer post-launch reviews where there's no agreements with Apple for early access, as I find them generally to be far more open, plain-speaking and willing to be critical.  It's like, do you ever, when online shopping, jump to the most critical reviews and ratings to see if they're reasonable; affect you; or there's a common theme (because individual reviews can be spurious)?  I find them generally to be far more helpful in my purchasing decisions than the glowing/positive reviews.  That's why I like people to be critical, even overly so.  I see the role of reviews and reviewers (in part) to be devil's advocate.  So sorry if it seems I'm overly negative or critical, but I think that explains my position.

    I gather that AI doesn't consider it appropriate or necessary to show more than the same old benchmarks on launch day, and perhaps you didn't have much time to do otherwise.  I'm looking forward to seeing real-world performance for a variety of not yet ported or optimised apps.  I'm very enthusiastic about the potential in this switch.  It's really only day one of release today.  I bet Apple's upcoming 16" ARM MacBooks will be very tempting!
    99/100 times, we buy our own hardware for review. This is a notable exception. Sometimes in the past I've been able to go to a local facility that isn't Apple-affiliated because of somebody I know to get time with hardware earlier than most will get it in hand, but it is almost always the day after preorders begin, or similar.

    As an example, you'll note that there are no iPhone 12 mini or iPhone 12 Pro Max reviews published by us. That's because we got the hardware when you did, and using it for three days and publishing a conclusion is irresponsible.

    You can tell when we have historically gotten the hardware, based on when we publish reviews, and they are almost never when the embargo expires -- read this as meaning "when the YouTubers publish en masse."

    I don't give a rat's ass what Apple thinks about what we write. Never have, and I'm not going to start now.

    In regards to "real-world performance for a variety of not yet ported or optimised apps," this is addressed by Dan in the Rosetta section. If you assume for every 10,000 AI readers, there are 15,000 use cases -- so it is impractical to do any kind of testing in that regard, even on an infinite timescale, as any given combination of apps we'd test is worthless for 99.9% of any potential reader's use case.
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  • 13-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon M1 review: Unprecedented power and battery for the ...

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    mwhite said:
    How do we get an iPad app on our M1 computer?
    https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/17/how-to-install-iphone-and-ipad-apps-on-your-apple-silicon-mac
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  • M1 benchmarks prove Apple Silicon outclasses nearly all current Intel Mac chips

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    davgreg said:
    I ordered a maxed out Mac mini right after the presentation and it is supposed to be delivered today. I currently have a maxed out 2018 Mac mini that I ordered right after that announcement. I also have the current MacBook Air wit the top CPU and 16GB. 

    It will be interesting to see how it performs. 
    I also have an ePGU for the intel Mini and wonder if it will work or be of benefit with the new M1 ARM mini.

    UPS site shows preparing for delivery today, so it will not be long now.

    eGPU does not work at all with any M1.
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  • Early macOS Big Sur adopters running into teething issues

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    viclauyyc said:
    spheric said:
    AniMill said:

    There are “content creators” who upgrade their OS main work machine without ensuring that their primary tools are certified for the update? 

    Are they new in the business? 
    Shouldn’t apple to do enough testing to make sure their latest and greatest major OS release is safe enough and good enough?

    My 2019 16” MBP just ran out of power while hook up to the stock 96W charger. The MBP only get 2-7W from the charger. The battery only got 1% battery left. I am not sure if it is a new feature or it is a tiny minor bug. 
    Assuming the power adapter isn't hosed on a hardware level, resetting the PMU should do the trick.
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  • Early macOS Big Sur adopters running into teething issues

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    dewme said:
    Several apps show as Update available in App Store, but when I click on Update, nothing happens. 
    We're finding that this means that there is a sub-point update after an initial Big Sur or Apple Silicon update. Closing and re-opening Software Update and letting it do its thing for a few minutes should clear this up.
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