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The author’s analysis sounds less like an explanation of how the M1 is faster, and more like an explanation of how it gets such amazing battery life. If someon

The author’s analysis sounds less like an explanation of how the M1 is faster, and more like an explanation of how it gets such amazing battery life. If someone could figure out a way to get all MacOS apps —including the system — to use the performance cores, perhaps the battery life would be back down to Intel levels?

bombcar 5y ago
I'm sure someone has run the battery dead using benchmarks that exercise the performance cores - I suspect that Apple designed a fast chip and an efficient chip and then married them together - that an M1Max with only performance cores wouldn't be that interesting power-budget-wise (though likely still an improvement).
EricE 5y ago
>If someone could figure out a way to get all MacOS apps —including the system — to use the performance cores, perhaps the battery life would be back down to Intel levels? Other than to prove an utterly useless point - why would you want to even remotely do that?!? If my time machine backup takes four times as long but my battery lasts longer still why would I care? The overall experience is a HUGE net improvement. That's the point being glossed over by the majority of commenters and the point the original author is making - benchmarks are interesting, but nothing beats real world experience and in real world experience there are a suite of factors contributing to the M1 and Apples SOC approach spanking the crap out of their competitors. There is more to life than rAw PoWeR ;)
- Eric_WVGG 5y ago
  curiosity? proving the thesis? knowledge that could improve competing laptops? yah never mind I don't care why these computers are impressive let’s just play macos chess and browse facebook jfc if you’re not interested why did you even join this conversation
  - EricE 5y ago
    I don't care? "That's the point being glossed over by the majority of commenters and the point the original author is making - benchmarks are interesting, but nothing beats real world experience and in real world experience there are a suite of factors contributing to the M1 and Apples SOC approach spanking the crap out of their competitors." I don't know what point would be proved by maxing out the cores other than confirming what seems to be pretty obvious - a hybrid approach has multiple benefits - not just in power efficiency but the user experience as well. It's not just one aspect of the design choices - but all of them in concert.
1123581321 5y ago
Anecdotes of very heavy users suggest 4-6 hours if CPU use remains high.

bombcar 5y ago

I'm sure someone has run the battery dead using benchmarks that exercise the performance cores - I suspect that Apple designed a fast chip and an efficient chip and then married them together - that an M1Max with only performance cores wouldn't be that interesting power-budget-wise (though likely still an improvement).

EricE 5y ago

>If someone could figure out a way to get all MacOS apps —including the system — to use the performance cores, perhaps the battery life would be back down to Intel levels? Other than to prove an utterly useless point - why would you want to even remotely do that?!? If my time machine backup takes four times as long but my battery lasts longer still why would I care? The overall experience is a HUGE net improvement. That's the point being glossed over by the majority of commenters and the point the original author is making - benchmarks are interesting, but nothing beats real world experience and in real world experience there are a suite of factors contributing to the M1 and Apples SOC approach spanking the crap out of their competitors. There is more to life than rAw PoWeR ;)

Eric_WVGG 5y ago
curiosity? proving the thesis? knowledge that could improve competing laptops? yah never mind I don't care why these computers are impressive let’s just play macos chess and browse facebook jfc if you’re not interested why did you even join this conversation
- EricE 5y ago
  I don't care? "That's the point being glossed over by the majority of commenters and the point the original author is making - benchmarks are interesting, but nothing beats real world experience and in real world experience there are a suite of factors contributing to the M1 and Apples SOC approach spanking the crap out of their competitors." I don't know what point would be proved by maxing out the cores other than confirming what seems to be pretty obvious - a hybrid approach has multiple benefits - not just in power efficiency but the user experience as well. It's not just one aspect of the design choices - but all of them in concert.

1123581321 5y ago

Anecdotes of very heavy users suggest 4-6 hours if CPU use remains high.