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The Amazing Little MacBook Air M4
August “Gus” Mueller, on shapeof.com:
With a full build of Acorn, including running hundreds of regression tests, Jimi outperforms my M1 Ultra at 3m21s vs 4m43s. And when purely compiling Acorn, where you’d think the Ultra would have an edge, I get 1:36 (Air) vs 2:05 (Ultra).
I’m sorry, what?
This $1400 machine is beating my $4000 desktop machine with a 20 core CPU, 48 core GPU, and 64GB of memory? What why how?
This threw a wrench into my plans of getting an used MacBook Pro 14in M1 with 32GBs of RAM. The MacBook Air M4 is just too much of a good value.