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1 year agoWhile I loved it personally the majority did not
It was actually a hit, but it was the piss poor performance of the Intel M chips and the relentless butterfly switch problems that forced Apple to discontinue it. Everyone wants the smallest, cheapest, most basic Mac. From basic users to many IT professionals and all those hipster stores that use Mac based POS systems.
The base M2 is decent, but it’s far from the most powerful CPUs out there.
What is impressive about the M2 is how powerful it is for how little power it uses, which means less heat, which means thin and fanless computers that can run at full performance on batteries alone and survive a whole day… like your mobile phone.
This scales right up into the bigger M2 Pro and M2 Max, which are strong performers, but once again, in sleek and thin laptops, all the performance available on battery power, will last basically a whole work day.
The Apple M chips are ARM, like those that have been used in mobiles and tablets for many years. It’s a revolution in power-to-performance that has been decades in the making. What many people don’t know is that ARM at this calibre, this power design, is just getting started.
Consider it analogous to a Tesla. There are plenty of cars that can out-drag a Tesla, but nothing in the same class as one. You are looking at luxury sports cars, supercars with high maintenance engines, not daily commuters. But electric is only getting started and some people are building electric hypercars and racecars that are smashing all the records. Those hypercars and racecars of the ARM CPU world are coming, even if Apple is sticking to the consumer/Tesla market.