Intel Throws Shades At Apple Following The Launch Of 11th Gen H-Series Processor
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Intel says Apple provides a poor gaming experience
Intel-based PC surpassed competitor’s performance during a series of test
Close on the heels of Intel s 11th generation H-series laptop processor launch Sunday, the company has openly slammed Apple for allegedly providing customers with a poor gaming experience with its ARM-powered Macs.
Intel s latest chip features thin designs, high volume and offers up to 5GHZ clock speed as well as WiFi 6/6E support and 1080p gameplay on some titles.
Immediately after the 11th generation H-series laptop chip launch, Intel held a separate press briefing where the company spoke about how its chip surpasses its competitors. Intel threw criticisms at AMD, ARM and Apple, PC Gamer reported.
Intel continues to throw shade at Apple, oddly aiming at the Intel-based MacBook Pro, but this time using gaming as a cudgel to try and prove Windows-based products are better than Apple s offerings.
Apple is on a two-year transition away from Intel in favor of using its own Apple Silicon chips in Macs, and its initial M1 releases easily demonstrates Apple is doing things right. However, Intel is still quite unhappy about the break-up, as a presentation to members of the media revealed.
The presentation about Intel s 11th-generation H-series notebook processors, which also took shots against AMD and ARM, saved most of its negativity for Apple, according to
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Expect major performance gains over Intel-based Macbook Pro models and Dolphin under Rosetta.
The native version of Dolphin also displayed far better efficiency.
Apple blew the likes of Qualcomm away when it launched the first Macs and Macbooks with the Arm-based M1 silicon, delivering a ton more performance compared to the best Windows on Arm computers. In fact, Apple’s first in-house chipset for Macs also out-performed plenty of Intel chips when it came to both power and efficiency.
Now, the team behind the popular Dolphin emulator for the Nintendo GameCube and Wii have released a native version of the emulator for Apple M1 Macs. And the results are pretty mind-blowing according to the team’s own analysis.
Apple MacBook Pro (M1) Review
The M1 version of the MacBook Pro for the most part delivers on the performance, compatibility, and battery life that Apple promises. But this is the low-end version of MacBook Pro, the non-Pro MacBook Pro, if you will. And it’s hard for most to justify its additional expense compared to the very similar MacBook Air.
So we should explain that bit first.
Forgetting for a moment about the M1 chipset, Apple’s MacBook lineup has consisted of four basic models for a few years now: The MacBook Air, the entry-level MacBook Pro 13 (with two Thunderbolt 3 ports), the MacBook Pro 13 (with four Thunderbolt 3 ports), and the MacBook Pro 16 (previously the MacBook Pro 15). The first two of those, the MacBook Air and the entry-level MacBook Pro 13, comprise the low-end of the MacBook family, and the latter two are higher-end, prosumer-class devices.