Does anyone have any insights into the following questions?
I know Rosetta 2 will help with the transition, but will all my current apps work on apple silicon as they do on my current mac? For example, keyboard maestro, alfred, and omnifocus?
Is the MacBook pro 13" cpu faster than the air? It’s the same chip, so wouldn’t’ the performance be similar? or is it throttled on the air?
That’s definitely Apple’s intention. I would say that if they don’t, it qualifies as a bug.
Practically speaking though, I would assume that things that just involves the core of the computer that Apple controls (processor, memory, display, things built in to the OS) should run on Rosetta 2, but that anything requiring external hardware, specific drivers for picky devices, etc. is a toss-up.
Yes, I have the same question. I just bought the MacBook Pro 13" but am considering the downgrade(?) to the MacBook Air. The only differences I can see are bigger battery, fan, better microphones and non-wedge shape. Other than that, they seem very similar.
All for $250 difference in price (comparing 16 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD).
I have a maxed out 16" from 2019, the 13" inch is tempting and I read that the m1 matches the i9 processing power? The main downgrade would be screen size and space (I have 4tb).
The base model MacBook Air has an M1 chip with 8 CPU cores and 7 GPU cores. The better specced MacBook Air (and the MacBook Pro and Mac mini) has an M1 chip with 8 CPU cores and 8 GPU cores.
That is what I found strange. Same chip different configuration, controlled via software maybe? Checking the MacBook Pro with macmini now. Thanks for the clarification.
More likely binning. They make a bunch of M1 chips with 8 GPU cores. Any chip with one bad GPU core gets sold as a 7 GPU core chip and put in a base model MacBook Air. Apple did the same thing with the A12X in the 2018 iPad Pro. Physically, the A12X has 8 GPU cores, but by speccing them as a 7 GPU core chip it increases yields by allowing them to use chips that have one dud GPU. It may seem strange, but it’s pretty standard practice in the chip making business.