MacBook Pro with Apple’s M1 processor in the test: Apple Silicon beats Intel M1-SoC with Fire and Ice Maximum 16 GByte RAM USB 4 turns out to be an empty phrase Practice benchmarks, battery life, fan noise Rosetta 2 and iOS apps webcam, WiFi, Intel similarities – and conclusion Test table In June, Apple announced it at its WWDC developer conference: Still in the year 2020 Where ll you bring out the first Macs with their own processor. The first copy was already available in November: For this test report we had a MacBook Pro 13 “with M1 chip, 8 GByte RAM and 256 – GByte SSD available ( Price: 1412 Euro). We moved in for comparison MacBook Pro 13 “with a 2 GHz Core i5 processor from Intel, 16 GByte RAM and 512 GByte SSD, which can still be bought (price: 2075 Euro).

The model with M1 looks exactly like the predecessor – except for a small globe on the fn key. Silver and space gray are still available as colors. When switching on, the classic Mac triad sounds again, which many Apple fans have probably missed (with other Macs you can reactivate the start tone in the terminal).

Only one key of the illuminated Magic keyboard with scissor mechanism has changed. The touch bar has remained.

M1-SoC with Fire and Ice Apple’s ARM processors are already known from the iPhone and iPad – most recently in the form of the A 14 Bionic (see also iPhone 12, 12 Per, 12 Per Max and 12 mini: Apple’s 5G smartphones in the test). Compared to the smartphones and tablets of the competition, they regularly achieve performance records.

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