Vratislav Holub At the end of 2020, we saw the introduction of the first Macs equipped with Apple Silicon. Specifically, it was a trio of computers – MacBook Air, 13″ MacBook Pro and Mac mini – that immediately gained a significant amount of attention. Apple very pleasantly surprised literally breathtaking performance together with low energy consumption. Upcoming models followed this trend. Apple Silicon brings with it a clear dominance in the performance/consumption ratio, in which it clearly sweeps away all competition.
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But if it comes to breaking bread in connection with raw performance, then we can find a number of much better alternatives on the market, which are ahead in terms of performance. Apple reacts to this quite clearly - it does not focus on performance, but on performance per watt, i.e. to the already mentioned performance/consumption ratio. But he can pay for it at one point.
Is low consumption always an advantage?
Basically, we have to ask ourselves a very fundamental question. Although at first glance this strategy appears to be perfect – for example, laptops have extreme battery life thanks to this and offer full performance in practically every situation – is low consumption always an advantage? Doug Brooks, a member of Apple's marketing team, has now commented on this. According to him, the new systems perfectly combine first-class performance with low endurance, which at the same time puts Apple computers in a fundamentally advantageous position. It can be said unequivocally that in this direction they surpass practically all competition.
This is how Appel introduced the M1
But if we look at the whole situation from a slightly different angle, then the whole thing looks completely different. As we mentioned above, in the case of MacBooks, for example, new systems play an extremely important role in favor of those MacBooks. But the same can no longer be applied in the case of so-called high-end models. Let's pour some pure wine. Probably absolutely no one who buys a high-end computer and clearly needs maximum performance takes its consumption into account. It is already more or less connected with it, and nobody cares about the raw performance. Therefore, although Apple brags about lower consumption, it may fall slightly in the target group because of this.
A problem called Mac Pro
It is clear that this more or less moves us to probably the most anticipated Mac of the present time. Apple fans are impatiently waiting for the moment when the Mac Pro with the Apple Silicon chipset will be shown to the world. Indeed, when Apple revealed its plans to move away from Intel, it mentioned that it would complete the entire process within two years. However, he missed this deadline and is still waiting for the most powerful Apple computer, which is more or less still out of sight. A number of question marks hang over him - what will he look like, what will be beating in his guts and how will he perform in practice. It is quite possible that, considering the zero modularity of Macs, the Cupertino giant will encounter Apple Silicon, especially in the case of these high-end desktops.
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This is repeating itself, isn't it?
It's not just a Mac Pro problem, it's that everyone cuts x K video, or works on a flashlight somewhere in a cafe or on the beach. A lot of data from the company is not allowed (NDA, DLP, etc...). And as it was, is and will be known at world sales, many people still stay with Intel. And he doesn't need to switch to Apple Mx yet. What about eGPUs or sound cards for studios?…. it is enough.
This is the problem of iMac, iMac Pro, Macbook Pro.