How the right laptop can help you beat loadshedding
Loadshedding takes a toll on productivity and morale, but it doesn’t have to take a toll on your device. Here’s how the new Mac range, powered by the M1 chip, are keeping things bright even in the dark.
Few things are as inconvenient as losing power on your device due to the ongoing bouts of loadshedding. And with it so engrained into the daily Saffa experience, having a device that can keep you going even in the dark is essential.
This is where the new MacBook Pro M1 range shines – especially with its industry-leading speed, performance, and battery life.
The entry-level 13-inch MacBook Air packs a punch with the ability to run up to 15 hours of wireless web surfing or up to 18 hours of Apple TV movie playback while unplugged.
This is taken a notch further with the chip-powered M1 MacBook range – as the M1 devices carried on well beyond those benchmarks. According to TechCrunch, the M1 chip exceeded the 24-hour mark in fullscreen 4k/60 video playback.
With record-breaking battery life on M1 machines, which are testimony to the design and engineering power of Apple’s SOC (System on a Chip), users will be able to stay powered and productive even through long loadshedding blocks.
The way Apple’s SOC works is that it allows several previously isolated components, such as the CPU, GPU, Neural engine, and audio and image processing hardware to be combined on one singular chip that holds unified memory. This means that fewer processors are needing to cross-communicate, and device processing is done significantly more seamlessly.
According to tech writer and YouTube presenter Mark Ellis, the M1 chip allows for high performance and peace of mind under pressure. When talking about the capabilities for everyday use, he said that the life of the MacBook Air M1 “genuinely makes a difference to the impact the device has on your life – more than any other feature, in my book.”
Jason Williams, a software engineer working on app development at the online curation portal, Reddit, noted that making the switch to the MacBook Pro M1 range helped to cut his team’s Android build-time in half. This then resulted in his team saving an estimated amount of $100,000 in productivity for the coming year.
The ROI found through the switch made by Williams is marked all the more impressive when you consider it against the downtime and inconvenience caused by rolling bouts and schedules of loadshedding.
For those looking to make the switch to Mac, you can put the device to the test by trading in at your nearest iStore and trading up your productivity and power. You can save up to R10 000 on your new Mac when you trade in your Windows Laptop. You can use this amount as an instant discount or redeem the trade-in value as an iStore Gift Card to use at a later stage.
For more information on the Mac range, please click here.
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