Apple Silicon Arrives! MacBook Benchmarks & M1 GPU Scores

0:00Today’s Show
0:39 Apple Silicon Started landing, so we have more benchmarks!
1:30 Mac mini now tops the lists as expected
5:50 Oh, and we know what the graphics will be like now too!
6:56 ESR Unboxing and giveaway
9:03 Folding iPhones being tested with OLED and MicroLED displays
Apple is testing Folding Phones with their manufacturers
10:51 Notification Squad

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Mac Single Multi
Mini Late 2020 1741 7643
MacBook Pro 1699 7349
MacBook Air 1662 7171
VirtualApple Air 1313 5888
How does M1 perform in Intel Rosetta 2 tasks? - Around 80% as fast as on native Apple Silicon tasks

Cinebench
(MacBook Pro) 1498 7508

Graphics for M1 are WAY better than you probably thought.
We kind of expected Apple Silicon’s M1 to be pretty good in graphics, at least compared to other integrated graphics options, but actually they’re pretty good vs midrange dedicated graphics too.

Tom’s Hardware shows some performance numbers and in GFX bench, the M1 outperformed the GTX 1050ti and RX 560 on frame rates at 1440p, and was close to the newer GTX 1650 too. Not bad to say all of this is inside the System on a Chip!

ESR Opening

Apple Testing Folding phones with Foxconn
I have to say I’m not excited by the prospect because I don’t see why Folding is a feature rather than just more to break, but if you love the idea, tell me why in the comments.

Skepticism aside if anyone can make me geek out over a folding phone it will be Apple. Currently the testing appears to be to work out if OLED or microLED is the best display tech for the form factor, and will include over 100,000 fold tests on the devices.

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[pnvgordinho]

Does that g4 cube work?. If not, I would buy a new Mac mini and transfer the internals to the cube.

[jonathandgibson]

Thanks for the info, waiting to hear the info on how good the m1 air is before placing an order! I’m a basic excel spreadsheet user, email, web, YouTube, large graphic file user for maps! Have a 6 year old Mac book pro, that is slow in opening 2mb files! Also have noticed that google maps appears not to be the full version on my current MacBook. Will this be the case on big sur? Google maps is great on my iPhone!! Don’t use Apple maps since no street map on Thanks for the news videos!! Looking forward to this new computing era!!! Just don’t want to jump on the wrong train!!!!

[jackdyson]

Thanks a lot David for a great channel. Really appreciate all the hard work that goes into it. I always learn lots. Cheers!

[tonydelgadopr]

Great channel ... you will have 100k subscribers soon!!!! New voice in the tech review space!!!

[digitalclips]

Question (my M1 arrives tomorrow) I am wondering if Safari on the new Si Macs can run YouTube 4K videos? The Intel Macs can't due to CODECS I assume.

[impendio]

Do we know the Metal score for the M1?

[sivamadhavchinta]

i think your macbook arrives today if it comes do a live after the premiere

[jbe]

Dont know why i didnt subscribe. Watched your videos everyday for a week now lol.

[StephenHaunts]

My Air turned up a few hours ago. So far I am blown away by it. Not had a single piece of software that I use daily fail to install or load yet. It is SOOO fast..

[chidorirasenganz]

My air and mini are out for delivery today. I’m gonna try to put up a first impressions video today or tomorrow

[jeremy]

I'm just impressed that you film on a phone, thats awesome!

[karthik]

Thanks for the video. Would you recommend to buy the Mac Mini with an M1 chip?

[danushkanchi]

To which Intel processor is M1 comparable to?is it good for programming?

[RandomRouletteFun]

#NotificationSquad - nice work on building your channel. I have no idea how you have enough to talk about every day, but haven’t been bored once! Thanks

[ayushmansharma]

I'm very confused whether it would be worth to wait for next zen of M1 chip or should i go for current M1 in macbook??

[LittleMountainLife]

Keep up the great work! Sorry for all of the haters hitting the thumbs down. They suck.
UPS is delivering my spec’d out MacBook Air this afternoon! 🙂

[beingatliberty]

what is that white stick bar that aimlessly wanders across the screen at points meant to be a - vu meter / pointing stick ? visually disconcerting, what do you mean were not allowed knives in the UK? of course we are? just not walking down the street.

[viv]

can you please do a test on the M1 Air for live-streaming and zooming to check the heat and power please?

[suzanne]

I am still in doubt: I am a semi-professional photographer and need a new macbook. Would the air be sufficient? Have so far only used Macbook pro’s. I use photoshop and lightroom classic with large raw files.

[macdaddy]

With respect, I think you missed an obvious name for your social media presence... while your actual name is probably “David”... I just think “iCave Dave” just has a pleasant ring to it and flows so smoothly... just my respectful two cents worth. Keep the videos coming David!!!