

The webcams in my ASUS ZenBook Pro and VivoBook Pro aren’t even as good as the smartphone I was carrying around in my pocket a decade ago.


One place they have got it right is with the 1080p HD webcam built into the thing. Interestingly, they don’t compare to any of the new Intel-based laptops with NVIDIA RTX Studio GPUs. They show a number of fancy benchmarks on their website, to show how much better the M1 Max and M1 Pro chips compare with Intel-based laptops, particularly when it comes to the GPU. The new MacBook Pro models containing the new chips are available in both 14″ and 16″ sizes. That being said, the boasted 21 hours is extremely impressive. You may not get more operating time out of the battery, but the time that you do have should, hypothetically, let you get more done. Apple promises that the new chips will offer 70% better CPU performance per watt compared to the original M1 chip, too, which should massively increase battery life. It also allows for connection of up to four displays to a single device. The M1 Max features a whopping 57 billion transistors, which is the largest chip that Apple has made to date. Original Apple M1 M1 Pro M1 Max CPU Cores 8 Up to 10 Up to 10 GPU Cores 8 Up to 16 Up to 32 RAM Up to 16GB Up to 32GB Up to 64GB Bandwidth 68.25GB/sec Up to 200GB/sec Up to 400GB/sec That 16GB max RAM limit has also been upgraded to 32GB and 64GB for the M1 Pro and M1 Max models respectively. They’re both built using the same 5nm process and despite only offering a couple more CPU cores, the GPU cores has doubled or quadrupled depending on which chip you go for. The new processors mean that Apple is finally starting to replace the Intel chips in its higher-end machines, and as impressive as M1 performance was vs Intel on launch, the new chips should be pretty amazing.
