Review on 13.3" Apple MacBook Pro 13 Late 2020 2560x1600, Apple M1 3.2 GHz, RAM 8 GB, SSD 512 GB, Apple graphics 8-core, macOS, RU, MYDC2RU/A, silver by Stanislaw Malkinski ᠌

All talk about unprecedented performance is a marketing lie. Text editor, browser and email client work at the same speed as before. It is difficult to compare performance across a wide range of tasks, since there is simply no native software for most tasks under the Apple M1. What is, works in the mode of emulation of classic processors with a serious decrease in performance compared to models of previous generations. For example, the same Photoshop seems to be native for Mac M1, but in practice you have to use the old version in the emulator. JetBrains products have native support for M1, but the speed is the same as before. There is no performance boost. It took me 3 hours to convert an ordinary two-hour 4K movie from ts format to mp4 format on my Mac Pro M1. On a comparable AMD gaming laptop, 25 minutes. The promise of support for applications from the iPhone and iPad at the time of purchase of the computer sounded very promising. In fact, we managed to start something, but most programs for mobile devices crash on startup with errors. The biggest problem is the system cache. After a couple of weeks of work, 2/3 of the hard disk is occupied by the system cache. Unlike situations with shadow copies and incorrect work of TimeMashine on previous models, which could be fixed with settings, on the Mac M1 this is cured only by reinstalling the system. It is impossible to install Windows, Linux as a second system or in an emulator. You can install Windows 10 for tablets in the emulator. Naturally, it is impossible to run something on it for the sake of which they put Windows on a Mac. There are no drivers for the simplest and most necessary peripherals. Battery life is seriously less than advertised - 6 hours at best when the computer is new.