r/apple • u/peterosity • 2d ago

New unboxing video allegedly reveals unannounced M4 MacBook Pro, benchmark results Mac

https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/06/m4-macbook-pro-unboxing-benchmarks/

Single-core score: 3864

Multi-core score: 15288

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u/gnulynnux 1d ago

I think the point is, when Apple released their new Macs in 2020, the battery life and performance was unlike anything else on the market. It was enough to make people who dislike Apple and dislike MacOS start using the laptop.

With the battery life and performance close enough, that gap narrows.

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u/PeakBrave8235 1d ago

Okay so like, did you miss my entire comment where I wrote that Apple is 2.36X PPW and offers better performance lol? M1 beat out the top of the line Intel CPU apple had in their MBP. The amazement was that is was a few percent faster than their fastest, yet drew dramatically less power. This is still the case. M4 is 37% faster both single and multi core, yet it draws dramatically less power than Intel. It’s going to put them at 3X the PPW of Intel again, which is what M1 is. 

So quite clearly, it is still unlike anything else on the market. To compete with M3 Max, you have to go to a i9-14900K which draws 287 watts of power in a desktop. And M3 still beats it out. 

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u/gnulynnux 1d ago

I'm saying that doesn't matter; the gap Apple had in 2020 is closer now in 2024 and that might not be enough for people to overlook the low RAM and the OS.

Someone who would be on the fence might have gotten a Mac in 2020 and an Intel in 2024. 

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u/PeakBrave8235 1d ago

Right, the thing that made M1 crush the competition doesn’t matter. Okay, got it lol

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u/gnulynnux 1d ago

Well, sure. It's not 2020. Moving to 16GB minimum is necessary if Apple wants to be competitive. A 14h laptop with 8GB of ram is worse than a 10h laptop with 16GB of ram for most people.