I’ve seen this all over the net and not having much to do with Apple, I didn’t get it.
Now I do 
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THIS, yes! There was nothing wrong with the current standard keyboard format, so lame. I rarely use my touch bar and when I do it’s for volume and screen brightness, which was already in the F keys…
I was reading around and the claims that the machine is faster even with emulation hasn’t been stating against what, exactly.
I was nearly ready to drop cash on a new macbook for home use. Was waiting for this new tech to drop. Now might have to reconsider for a mac mini unless they can convince me that ALL of my current peripherals will run off 1 thunderbolt port. Since the other has to be connected for power, that means a docking station with a whole bunch of stuff connected to it, including an external monitor and a wired ethernet connection. Driving all that data through one port bus? I dunno…
But I’ve gotten so used to taking the laptop out on the patio though… maybe it’s time for a PC.
I’ve never bought or relied on apple.
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I have. Since my very first Apple II-plus.
I know them pretty much inside and out (though less so with my laptop, can’t get the cover off…LOL)
The PCs I use are far from “reliable.”
I dont know why. Pcs for me over the last twenty five years have been far more reliable. Macs have been a pain in my butt years.
Same parts. Same Manufacturers. Tripple the price.
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Not gonna argue. Don’t care that much either way. They both suck when they break. In fact all tech sucks when it breaks.
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Here you go;
CPU performance comparison
GPU performance comparison
This is a completely new chip, the first ever with 5 nanometer build and 15 billion transistors.
Yes I’m quoting from the Apple website and yes, I use/prefer Macs but this is a real game changer. Ignore it at your peril, because you can bet Adobe will be updating the Creative Suite optimised to run on this chip.
Those graphs show absolutely nothing. What latest PC Laptop Chip? Which one???
What speed are they going?
It’s actually 16 billion transistors - but there are Intel/AMD chips with more transistors than that.
Again - it’s meaningless drivel from Apple.
It’s only a game changer if you are a sucker for Apple. There are better processors than the M1.
And there’ll be better ones when Intel and AMD release their new range anyway.
It’s so much money for Apple Products - and I can’t justify it.
I put one together on Apple site for a £4500!
I put the same All in One PC WITH a superior graphics card - exact same specs.
And it was a 34inch curved screen too.
Exact same specs - £2000.
M1 chip is nice. I have no need or desire to work on a 13 inch screen, portability is not for me. If it is for some people it’s a great choice as there are no there processors of similar calibre in a 13 inch.
But you can certainly do much better specs for your money in the 15-17 inch range of laptop.
As I said the new chips from Intel and AMD are coming. The new Intel Iris XE looks like a game-changer too.
AMD chips are overtaking Intel chips at some levels.
It makes for an interesting battle of processors.
But I won’t be buying Mac - or any Apple product.
Fact as well is the M1 chip is limited to 16gb is a huge NO for me.
And the hard drive is too small - to upgrade to the 2TB storage is £600?
No thanks.
I’d rather have a cheaper computer that does everything I want - really strong graphics card - all the RAM I want/need - all the storage I want/need and a better processor than the M1 - and a larger screen.
It’s a resounding no from me.
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I know for a fact they are. It’s been announced already.
And why wouldn’t they? I’d say a lot of designers/prints stuidos/ etc. throughout the world are running Macs.
It makes sense for them to run on the M1 architecture natively.
What does it mean for everyone else? Nothing really.
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I’d argue that PC’s are slowly becoming the default for Designers.
I’m not gonna argue. I don’t care what computer you use, like, or hate.
Except for the fact that Adobe is not up to speed on this chip yet and if you buy one of these computers right now, you will be running in Rosetta emulator mode.
There is always something better, faster, stronger the minute you buy a new unit. I’ve given up playing that game too. I get my money’s worth after 4-5 years. Anything beyond that makes me happy. Unfortunately my home laptop is pushing 10.
No preference either. I’ve a laptop and an iMac side by side here.
The iMac unfortunately is needed as some fonts won’t work on the PC. That’s the only reason. And I can’t substitute the fonts because the packaging is regulated by the industry and any deviation, even font version numbers, throws rejections back.
But like PD - I’ve given up with the buying all newest tech.
The tech I have works perfectly fine, and I don’t care if something is computed in a trillionth or a billionth of a nanosecond, or if it has 16bn transistors compared to 14bn.
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They require the use of 25-year-old Type 1 Macintosh fonts? Weird. What kind of industry is this?
Sounds like pharma or governmental (emphasis on mental.)
Has to be that there typeface approved “as is” No substitutions.
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That could be the case, but I’ve never seen any statistics on it.
I’m likely an outlier but over the course of several changes in jobs over the years, I’ve never worked anywhere that Macs weren’t the company-wide norm for the creative staff and in all but one of those jobs for the entire company. My last job was at a big university and I don’t think I ever saw a Windows machine the entire time I was there, but then I wasn’t really looking either.
I just Googled it and it seems that Macs still have around a 9.5% market share, so I suspect my experience has been uncommon. How that market share has changed in the design profession, I really don’t know.
I haven’t noticed any change in what my clients prefer. Not recently anyway. A few years back I did notice a lot of broadcast CDs changing to iPads, mostly because they were so on the go all the time, it was just easier to interface everything they needed to direct their minions on an iPad. Whether or not that was a change from PC laptops or Mac laptops, I don’t know.
Obviously not all the fonts. But it’s pharmaceutical and it can 3 years to get something approved. So nothing can change.
Well it’s started
The Adobe forums have started getting complaints about M1 chip and running Adobe Apps.
For InDesign
Important to note only 16.0 is tested on Big Sur.
15.x and below are not tested.
It says right there on the Adobe label. paraphrased “we are not going to be ready when Apple introduces the M1 chip and OS11. Photoshop may be ready, but the rest of the suite will take up to a year…”
Do your due diligence when it comes to the tools of your trade. Anyone who jumps on new tech the moment it’s released deserves every headache they get.