Apple in November 2020 released the first Macs with an Arm-based M1 chip, debuting 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini models. In early 2021, Apple added the M1 iMac and the M1 iPad Pro. The M1 chip received rave reviews for its incredible performance and efficiency, and it is...

Mar 12, 2023 · After that, Apple doesn't guarantee to patch all security flaws on the older MacOS, but there are still some patches and maintenance releases. It will also take about two to three years until the newest apps start to require a newer Mac with a newer MacOS. Thus, M1 will be usable with the latest apps until 2030 at the very minimum.

Oct 23, 2020 · Can anyone confirm if the Apple M1 chip has hardware decoding for the VP9 and AV1 format? What's the CPU load when playing back 4k and 8k video? I haven't been able to find anything on the internet from a reliable source, so I'm curious if …

Nov 7, 2023 · M1, M2, and M3: Standard Apple silicon chip with a balance of performance and power-efficiency. M1 Pro, M2 Pro, and M3 Pro : Apple silicon chip with additional high-performance CPU cores. The M1 Pro and M2 Pro feature twice the memory bandwidth of the M2 and M3 chips (200GB/s), while the M3 Pro features 50% more memory bandwidth than the M2 …

Nov 30, 2014 · Apple said back at WWDC that M1 was the baseline for Apple Intelligence support. Beyond that anything is just speculation. I think that for a lot of the use cases demonstrated at WWDC and the September event it will not make a high difference in terms of M1 vs M2/3/4/etc.

May 11, 2020 · On the M1 Pro, the benchmark runs at between 11 and 12ms/step (twice the TFLOPs, twice as fast as an M1 chip). The same benchmark run on an RTX-2080 (fp32 13.5 TFLOPS) gives 6ms/step and 8ms/step when run on a GeForce GTX Titan X (fp32 6.7 TFLOPs).

May 20, 2010 · Am curious as, the more I think about it, this is seeming nebulous. On M1 Macs, is there an actual integrated Thunderbolt 3 controller embedded on the M1 as one of its many sub-components? Or is Apple merely just using USB4 and claiming Thunderbolt 3 support by virtue of that being something...

Nov 17, 2020 · I am a Streamer and YouTuber, I use my 2021 M1 MacBook Pro exclusively. OBS works perfectly through Rosetta 2, however because of this it uses more resources than it would optimized and running on the M1 chip natively. On top of this most of the games I stream are also not optimized and running through Rosetta 2.

Jun 24, 2010 · Bumping this. I have the opportunity to get a used M1 MacBook Pro, still having 5 months of Apple Care, and fairly certain treated well (have to check on battery cycles), for less then a new M3 Air. I am comparing the M1 Pro, though, to a base M4 MacBook.

Jul 16, 2024 · That all being said, as a tl;dr: While Intel Macs are still supported, so will Apple Silicon Macs that have a base M1. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple had one or two releases in which Intel support is entirely dropped, but all Apple Silicon Macs (from M1 all the way through M3 Max and beyond) are supported before eventually ditching M1 support.