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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]get an intel mac from 2020, arc processors are limited in their functionality (like the m1, m4 ultra, etc)
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What functionality is limited?  I went from an Intel chip to Apple Silicon and the only thing I’ve noticed is faster performance and better battery life.[/quote]
arc processors are fine and quite functional/effecient for most things, but they cannot use some features such as external gpus, or boot camp. this only really matters for people who want to play some video games, run windows on a mac natively, or do advanced or computationally taxing projects such as 3d rendering, simulation, and some very intense video editing programs.
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This is more a limitation of the Mac (other than bootcamp) than the M chip; it’s never had a particularly great CPU or been good at playing games.  I suppose if running windows on your Mac was super important the M chip would be a negative.  When I got my new Mac I wa
sn’t able to run my windows VM anymore and had to get a separate windows machine for the software developmentm series npus are okay, but total inincompatibility with an egpu makes it not worth it if a m series is not sufficient. vms are pretty consistantly bad, yeah. boot camp was apples only feature that helped before they removed all of that. and that is is how to get a monopoly lawsuit in 5 easy steps :)
 that needed windows. That made me realize how terrible the VM experience was on the laptop; I’m actually glad it forced me to switch.

I’ve never heard that the new Macs are bad at video editing; I’ve heard the opposite actually.

The new M chip Mac’s are astoundingly fast, and get much better battery life than the previous machines with Intel chips.[/quote][/quote]

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