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To get a glimpse of what Apple is up to the Apple World Wide Developer Conference [WWDC] starts today at 10:00 a.m. Pacific. They sometimes announce new hardware products but it is mostly about software features for existing as well as upcoming hardware.
From MacRumors:
"The keynote event will give us our first look at new operating system updates, including iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9, plus rumors suggest we could see some new hardware. Everything we've heard about this year's event is outlined below."
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/wwdc-2022-what-to-expect/
Live stream at the link below or on YouTube.
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- Apple M2 chip initially available in the all new MacBook Air and in the 13" MacBook Pro. Looks like 14" and 16" MacBook Pros will get M2 later.
Edits: 06/06/22 06/06/22 06/06/22
PassMark now includes the Apple M series processors in its CPU benchmarks. The i5-8500B in my Mini is rated at 9395, your i7-8700B is rated at 12158 and the M1 8 core is rated at 14653.
There are some higher powered M1s listed as well. The ultra 20 core benches at 41248 which is equivalent to an i9-12900K.
Apple M1/M2 are pretty impressive especially if you compare power consumption which is obviously important in a laptop. So far the entry level M1 appears to be the best value. The price of a M1 Mac Mini is lower than the previous Intel based Minis yet they're faster.
AMD & Intel have some faster processors but not nearly as power efficient.
I still can't get over how fast the M1 computers are, nevermind this.
I have the hand-me-down Intel MBPs from my daughters. It is plenty fast for what I do, which is mostly to stream Qobuz. When I convert output to DSD256 it can keep up and that is probably the most intense processing I do these days. I want to try one of the M1s that I bought them to see what it is like on that, but I see no need to upgrade. For that matter my 27" iMac is already 7 years old and see no need to upgrade that either.
There will come a day though when Apple says no more, that they don't have the features needed to run the latest OS, or just drops Intel support, but not for another bunch of years.
Fortunately M1/M2 ARM based Macs will run applications that were coded for x86 Intel processors using something called Rosetta 2. It performs translation and emulation. It's surprisingly fast from what I've read and is there to give developers time to port their code to run natively on M1. Many already have.
My main computer is a fairly recent 2018 i7 Mac Mini on my desk with a 27" display by LG. The other Mac Mini is an older 2012 i7 Mac Mini for audio and other entertainment purposes. It resides in my audio rack and is attached to the big screen TV.My laptop is an older 2015 13" i5 2015 MacBook Pro. It's a bit heavy. The display is bright but relatively low-res compared to newer displays so the desktop always seems a little crowded.
My wife has a refurb 2017 i5 iMac 21.5" that came with a hard disk. I bought it a couple years ago from BH Photo. It came with an internal hard disk but I set it up with an external USB-C boot disk SSD* [Samsung T5] so it's pretty fast and responsive. The external boot SSD is velcro'd to the iMac stand so it's out of the way and out of view. Even though it is external and runs on USB-C it is miles faster than a spinning hard disk.
*Samsung T5 SSD There are newer models now.
Edits: 06/07/22 06/07/22
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