The good news is that the display is factory calibrated and good LEDs don’t tend to drift much. One potential challenge is calibration – the similar Pro Display XDR can only be calibrated using very expensive instruments – Datacolor Spyders need not apply. A few pixels at the top of the screen are lost to an iPhone style notch, a necessary tradeoff for the nearly bezel-free design, The notch is designed to fit between the menus and the menu bar icons, where it will cause as little trouble as possible – be careful if you use iStat Menus or something else that has a ton of icons…The original M1 would only drive one external display, while the M1 Pro will drive up to two 6K (or smaller) displays plus the internal display and the M1 Max will drive three displays up to 6K, one up to 4K and the internal display (no word on 8K displays, but I suspect the M1 Pro will probably drive one and the M1 Max might drive up to two). The screen resolution also improves from 3072×1920 to 3456×2234 pixels on the 16” model. If you can afford three Pro Display XDRs, the M1 Max will drive them Apple is claiming a billion colors, which suggests that it’s a 10-bit panel, something normally only seen on high-end professional monitors (the only other 10-bit laptop I’m aware of is HP’s Dreamcolor displays). It is supposed to cover the DCI-P3 color space, which suggests (but no confirmation yet) that it should cover a very high percentage of Adobe RGB as well, since the two color spaces are very similar. Of course, nobody’s seen the new notebook display live, but it should be impressive. Apple is claiming the same 1000 nit sustained/1600 nit peak brightness as the Pro Display, and they are referring to it as an XDR display. The headline feature is the Mini-LED display technology we first saw in the ultra-expensive Pro Display XDR, with similar brightness and color gamut. The small chassis has more CPU options than the large one, because the lower-end 8 CPU core, 14 GPU core version of the M1 Pro is only available in the 14” model, presumably to slip a new MacBook Pro in under $2000 (the lowest-end model costs $1999).īeyond the raw performance, which should be excellent, the new MacBook Pros offer a number of interesting features. Now, the most powerful CPU and GPU are available in the smaller chassis. Throughout the recent history of the MacBook Pro, the small chassis has had significant performance disadvantages – fewer CPU cores and no discrete graphics. Apple decided not to make a version with even more cores that needs the power and cooling of the 16” chassis. One unusual feature of the M1 Pro and M1 Max is that they are so power-efficient that even the most powerful version of the M1 Max is available in the 14” MacBook Pro. The same 32 GPU core version should be slightly more than twice as fast as the Radeon Pro 5600M that is the fastest GPU option on the 16” Intel MacBook Pro. Assuming that the GPU cores are similar to those on the original M1, 32 of them should perform something like a desktop Nvidia RTX 2080 or a PlayStation 5. power – not QUITE as fast as the fastest GeForce someone’s shoved into a laptop, but a whole lot easier to live withĮstimated graphics performance numbers are equally impressive. The 10-core version has 8 performance and 2 efficiency cores. Even the low core count variant of the M1 Pro has 6 performance cores, losing two efficiency cores for two more performance cores. While the original M1 also claims to be an 8-core chip, it has only 4 performance cores (and 4 efficiency cores). The CPU core choice is between 8 and 10 total cores. It has 14 or 16 GPU cores, as opposed to 7 or 8 on the original M1. The smaller of the two SOCs, the M1 Pro, comes in two varieties with different numbers of CPU cores, and is available with 16 or 32 GB of RAM. If a little mini notebook with an iPad chip running under 10 watts could perform like a 16” MacBook Pro, what would happen with a 40 watt chip based on the same technology? What would a machine with the best of Apple’s professional technologies and a bunch of Apple Silicon cores look like? Today’s introductions, new 14” and 16” MacBook Pros using two new Apple Silicon chips, begin to answer that question.īoth new Apple Silicon Systems on a Chip (SOC) use very similar CPU and GPU cores to the original M1 – but there are a lot more cores, and the ratio between performance and efficiency cores is different. Even with the low-power CPU, the M1 Macs were remarkable performers, good enough to cause a lot of professional users to wonder “what if Apple released a less power-constrained version of that chip”.
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