The new semester is coming. After a year of studying at home in 2020, the life of returning to school is finally on the right track. Normally, the start of the school season in September is the "peak period" for buying new devices, but the three Macs with M1 chips released by Apple in November last year may break everyone's pace of replacement. The actual experience after getting the new device eliminated many people's concerns about the performance and compatibility of Apple's self-developed chips before the release.
We will briefly sort out the information of several Macs for everyone. If you have the idea of buying a new device in the near future, you may wish to choose according to your needs.
What are the advantages of the M1 chip Mac?
If you are a little concerned about the M1 chip Mac, you will probably have heard of its excellent performance. Although there is no change in the appearance of this Mac upgrade, it is a great improvement in the user experience.
Even if you don't use professional software to handle large tasks, you can feel the changes brought about by the upgrade when the application starts, wakes up from sleep, or opens large files. Another advantage is the improvement of battery life. The longest battery life of MacBook AIr and MacBook Pro reached 18 hours and 20 hours, respectively, which was almost doubled compared to the previous ones. This means that you don't even need to carry the charger with you when you go to the classroom or study in the library, which not only reduces the weight of your backpack, but also eliminates the trouble of "robbing the socket" to a certain extent.
The M1 chip is also very good in heat dissipation control, so Apple brought back the previous "fanless design" to the MacBook AIr, and the fan of the MacBook Pro only runs when high-performance work is required, so you can get very Quiet experience.
In addition, the M1 chip Mac also has an exclusive function to run apps on the iPhone/iPad. The main developers put their apps on the Mac App Store, and you can use iOS apps directly on the Mac, and open it on the Mac. Are you hungry? It’s not a problem to order a takeaway, or to open a Weibo client to scan a Weibo.
As for the software compatibility issues that everyone was worried about before, most of the daily-used applications can work normally since the launch of the new Mac. With the follow-up of developers in the past six months , professional software including Office and Photoshop have also been adapted Equipped with M1 version of Mac, it is even smoother than the old version in running speed. If you are using some professional software before, you can also search for compatibility issues.
Since the M1 chip is used, what is the difference between several Macs?
Although they all use the M1 chip, there are still some differences in the configuration of several Macs.
The first is the graphics processor. The M1 chip of the MacBook AIr priced at ¥7999 is an 8-core CPU + 7-core graphics processor configuration, while other Mac M1 chips are 8-core CPU + 8-core graphics processing. Device. This gap is mainly reflected in some games, or video editing and rendering tasks.
In addition to the cooling fan mentioned above, the MacBook AIr uses a fanless design, and the other two Macs are equipped with fans. This reflects the gap in the processing of large tasks in actual use. The MacBook AIr chip without a fan is fully loaded. Will be shorter than the other two.
Finally, the peak brightness of the MacBook AIr screen is 400 nits, and the peak brightness of the MacBook Pro is 500 nits. In terms of memory and hard drives, there is no difference between the initial configuration of MacBook AIr and MacBook Pro, both of which are 8GB+256GB.
所以，如果你日常只是简单地浏览网页、看视频，或是用 office 处理文字、表格，极致轻薄的MacBook AIr 是你的首选，你在日常使用中应该很难感受到上面提到的这些 AIr 和 Pro 之间的差别。如果你希望能够获得最佳的性能，平时经常需要剪辑视频或运行大型任务，偶尔还玩玩游戏，MacBook Pro 可能更适合你。Mac mini 的情况则比较特殊，理论上它应该是最能体现 M1 芯片性能的机型，如果你没有移动办公的需求，买一台 Mac mini 外加一台显示器，在现在这个时间，可能比购买 iMac 更加合适。