We’ve put together a simple and dry price comparison between the new reinvented M1 MacBook Pro, to its Intel twin. It turns out that a fully specced M1 chip MacBook Pro is 36% cheaper than a spec’d out Intel model, which leads to the conclusion that Apple’s M1 indeed facilitates production costs and elevates efficiency. Have look at the table below.
M1: Apple’s in-house chip dedicated to Mac
Yesterday, Apple has announced its new reinvented Macs, armed with its own in-house M1 chip. The keywords for this announcement were: Speed and efficiency. Read all about the announcement in our article: Apple Reinvents the Mac With its own M1 Chip. The ability to develop, produce, and manufacturing your own chip can result in the reduction of production costs. Apple has already claimed that the new design will allow better and more powerful devices that relatively have a lower price point. Thus, we’ve decided to make a very simple and dry comparison between fully specced MacBook Pro models: The M1 and its Intel twin. Scroll down to see the delta in price.
A fully specced MacBook Pro (13-inch) with Apple’s chip M1 is far cheaper (36% reduction in price) than its 10th-generation Intel Core i7 version.
Fully specced MacBook Pro price: M1 vs. Intel
Here’s Apple’s price offer for the spec’d out MacBook Pro (13-inch) with Intel processor:
- 2.3GHz quad-core 10th-generation Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz Intel Iris Plus Graphics
- 32GB 3733MHz LPDDR4X memory
- 4TB SSD storage
- Four Thunderbolt 3 ports
Price: $3,600
Here’s Apple’s price offer for the newly announced MacBook Pro (13-inch) with M1 chip:
- Apple M1 chip with 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU
- 16-core Neural Engine
- 16GB unified memory
- 2TB SSD storage
- Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports
Price: $2,300
Explore the slide below which summarizes the comparison:
Interpretation
A fully specced MacBook Pro (13-inch) with Apple’s chip M1 is far cheaper (36% reduction in price) than its 10th-generation Intel Core i7 version. However, the Intel version allows much more memory, 32GB compared to only 16GM maximum in the M1 version. Furthermore, the Intel version allows the privilege of 4TB storage, compared to the M1 which offers a maximum storage capacity of 2TB. Why is that? We can assume that the reason for these differences is due to a business decision made by Apple, to prevent product cannibalization of the Intel-inside Macs. Otherwise, we can not see any other logical explanation for that, as the M1 architecture is supposed to allow more memory and storage. The big question is: Which is faster? Take your bet!
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Miss leading article. Same 2 TB SSD and 16 GB mem will spec out to be $2,599 for Intel i7. Not $3,600. Yes, it is $300 cheaper. Not $1,300 cheaper.
well, the comparison wasn’t made under the “same capacity” of memories n storage. it said “spec’d out” meaning ‘decked out” also could mean fully equipped. i just checked out apple’s website and for M1 models, 2tb 16gb mem is all u can upgrade to whereas with i7 processors, apple “allows” upgrades of storage n memory twice as much. so, in real, M1 is actually more expensive.
but I would like to know which one is faster.
This is the million-dollar question! Let’s say that optimized M1 apps will work faster on the M1 Macs.