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Might also be worth pointing out that there is no mention of "battery" in that blog post. The M1 Max is already a beast of a chip, and lots has been written on

Might also be worth pointing out that there is no mention of "battery" in that blog post. The M1 Max is already a beast of a chip, and lots has been written on HN and elsewhere about how it knocks the socks off the competition. I'm not going to repeat all of the stuff that has already been written all over the internet. But the most impressive party piece of the new M1s is surely that they can knock the socks off the competition whilst running on battery and can do so for a decently sustained period of time. All of the remotely viable competition I am aware of needs to be plugged into the mains at all times otherwise you get a very throttled experience.

brailsafe 5y ago
Apparently the Asus Zephyrus beats it on a number of benchmarks by a large margin, but I'm not sure if those were just GPU benchmarks, and I'm not sure if those were on battery tests. Linus Tech Tips did a recent comparison.
- izacus 5y ago
  It's always telling that these benchmarks are done vs. old Intel chips inside the Mac and not the current competitors like latest AMD Ryzen series. Apple chips still win, but nowhere near with the same margin as those breathless marketing posts are trying to advertise.
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  - breakfastduck 5y ago
    Only the majority of people getting M1s are upgrading from macs with those old intel chips, so they're also the most relevant to the customer.
- traceroute66 5y ago
  The Asus probably also runs hotter and requires more use of fans. And I doubt the battery will last as long on intensive tasks. A big part of the M1 performance per watt efficiency is the SoC integrated design. I'm no motherboard designer but I think it would be nigh on impossible to replicate it using discrete component systems (which I assume is what the Asus is). Will caveat my comment here with a note that I haven't looked at comparisons for a while, only around the time the M1 was launched.

brailsafe 5y ago

Apparently the Asus Zephyrus beats it on a number of benchmarks by a large margin, but I'm not sure if those were just GPU benchmarks, and I'm not sure if those were on battery tests. Linus Tech Tips did a recent comparison.

izacus 5y ago
It's always telling that these benchmarks are done vs. old Intel chips inside the Mac and not the current competitors like latest AMD Ryzen series. Apple chips still win, but nowhere near with the same margin as those breathless marketing posts are trying to advertise.
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- breakfastduck 5y ago
  Only the majority of people getting M1s are upgrading from macs with those old intel chips, so they're also the most relevant to the customer.
traceroute66 5y ago
The Asus probably also runs hotter and requires more use of fans. And I doubt the battery will last as long on intensive tasks. A big part of the M1 performance per watt efficiency is the SoC integrated design. I'm no motherboard designer but I think it would be nigh on impossible to replicate it using discrete component systems (which I assume is what the Asus is). Will caveat my comment here with a note that I haven't looked at comparisons for a while, only around the time the M1 was launched.