Apple’s Macbook M1 for Data Science?

Apple finally did the transition from intel-based MacBooks to their own home-produced Apple Silicon called M1. They showed many graphs depicting the power of the machines and this year in 2021, they introduced two new variants for the people who have more hunger for power with M1 Pro and M1 Pro Max.

Youtubers went gaga when they saw the specs and when they ran their rendering tests. Recently Uber and Shopify also announced that they would be replacing old machine with these new powerful macs as they cut the compiling time into half.

Today in this post I am going to take a look on the use of M1 Macs for data science field.

Let's just first recap all the specifications:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020)

Display

• Retina display
• 13.3-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 2560-by-1600 native resolution at 227 pixels per inch with support for millions of colors
• Supported scaled resolutions:
• 1680 by 1050
• 1440 by 900
• 1024 by 640
• 500 nits brightness
• Wide color (P3)
• True Tone technology