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In Reply to: RE: Surprise !! You think M1 kicks Intel's ass? How about M2 posted by AbeCollins on June 06, 2022 at 11:50:45
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.
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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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