Battery life was underwhelming too, i.e., I never saw the battery life that many reviews claimed in their testing.

Pretty much all of the Intel-based 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models I’ve used/owned over the years suffered (based on my usage patterns) from heat problems. The M1 MacBook is a far cry from the Intel-based MacBooks I used for years. Credit: Brooke CrothersĪfter using the M1 MacBook Pro for 6 months, it’s obvious that Apple made the right decision to move macOS to its own silicon. Laptop is run until it loses power.Īpple M1 Vs Core i7-1185G7. Display brightness is typically set at over 70 percent. *For me, “real world” is based on my usage scenario which includes running Google Chrome with 20+ tabs (the single biggest power drain), Firefox browser, Microsoft Office, Google Docs, social media, YouTube videos (in background playing music), CMS, video conferencing (e.g., Zoom, Microsoft Teams), Apple Music, benchmarking applications, and photo editing. Both laptops are fast and neither had any thermal issues - though the M1 MacBook Pro does stay cooler than the XPS 13. I’ve noticed no significant performance gap using the two systems day in and day out. On testing of real-world* workloads, Dell’s with Intel’s 11th Gen Core i7 is no slouch. For me, performance on widely-used applications (like the Chrome browser where I spend a lot of time) is what counts the most. Synthetic benchmarks are useful to a point. (See these Geekbench scores for M1 MacBook Pro and Dell XPS 13 9310.) Geekbench 5 single-core and multi-core also show a significant upside for the M1 MacBook. Cinebench R23 single-core CPU scores are a lot closer for the M1 and i7: 1,514 vs 1,457, respectively.

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