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It's like OSX users had a taste of what most non-OSX users have been experiencing for years and suddenly the future is here.
by postalrat 6y ago
It's like OSX users had a taste of what most non-OSX users have been experiencing for years and suddenly the future is here.
- acchow 6y agoAre you claiming people could have fixed their slow Chrome experience by just getting off OSX? I’m fairly sure if you work with 200 tabs regularly, you’d see equally slow perf on Linux and Windows.
- neogodless 6y agoI'm confused by what you're trying to say. While I think it is accurate that the Intel hardware put in Macs the past few years was rapidly falling behind competitive AMD hardware, that same hardware was still largely dominating Windows market share. (I won't speak to Linux because maybe it's such a technology aware segment that the majority already migrated away from Intel to superior AMD hardware in the past few years.) But the point stands that most non-macOS users were on roughly the same mediocre Intel hardware. Decent single core, but increasingly hot and inefficient in the past few years. It also seems like Big Sur + M1 is doing something kind of special with efficient use of RAM to ensure programs load and perform remarkably well.
- kart23 6y agoThe form factor is limiting though. You don't have to worry about power consumption on a desktop, you don't have to worry about heatsoak or throttling. The problem was they were stuffing full desktop intel chips in their thinnest computers ever, and people were expecting that their new 6-core i9 macbook would translate into real-world performance gains. But yes, pretty much every intel-based laptop in recent years has suffered from mediocre CPUs.
- hawthornio 6y agoAh yes, the famous Apple Silicon-based Windows machine we’ve all been hearing about for years