I have to ask (mostly for my own sanity) but everyone keeps going on about how quick the new machines are but how much quicker can they be?
I’m not trying to rain on anyone’s new M1 parade, far from it, but honestly ever since I disabled font smoothing on my 16 Pro it’s been lightning fast and hasn’t struggled with anything I’ve thrown at it.
My other gripe is that most YouTube ‘comparison’ videos do speed tests with things like video rendering etc but none actually compare real world desktop/web browsing experience.
I mean, how much faster do we need Safari to open?
Is there really much of a difference?
Or is it one of things that needs to be seen in person to appreciate?
That's one of the difficult things about modern equipment. Realistically for general purpose, do they need to be quicker? For web browsing / editing the odd document for me an iPad is completely fine, same for consuming media etc.
For specific work cases, this is where the speed comes in. From Video Rendering, to Code Compilation and Computational Work they can still get better and better. I think real world web browsing benchmarks are difficult and fairly pointless, I know there were a lot of Javascript benchmarks done early on, but web browsing isn't just your machine as it's just Safari or whatever web browser you want, other things take it out of the applications hands such as Internet Speed, Site Optimisation etc. For my personal workload, they need to get no better than the Mac Mini M1 Processor, but they will and I will continue to purchase upgrades because I like technology, but it's getting for me who only writes code, uses CLI and uses Web Browsers to implement and manage most things it's getting a harder and harder sell to upgrade, and in fact I now upgrade less and less.
YouTube comparisons are always gash, I ignore them. Despite what all the big YouTubers seem to want to believe, they don't need to be using RED Cameras and shooting in 8k and then editing natively using all the fancy stuff, but it's a talking point and a bit of show off for them, and a good showcase for the capabilities of the machine.