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“Picked out” is an odd way to say “the platform that they make” A bunch of the power saving is also from the OS shutting things down quickly and moving everyth
by olliej 5y ago
“Picked out” is an odd way to say “the platform that they make”
A bunch of the power saving is also from the OS shutting things down quickly and moving everything to low power states, linux has not always been the best at that. Which does make sense given that the primary usage is still things like data centers where the primary purpose is having everything go as fast as possible essentially all the time.
- marcan_42 5y agoLinux is the world's most popular OS running on mobile devices with small batteries. I'd say x86 platforms have not always been the best at that :-)
- olliej 5y agoI think there’s a meaningful difference between being able to run on low power devices, and being able to control power usage of high performance ones, but I also take your point. However we can also point to Darwin as it runs on lightning cables, presumably apples high performance usb-c/thunderbolt/marketing-name-of-the-day, etc on super teeny tiny arm processors :)
- ravi-delia 5y agoI see what you're saying, and really I do generally think Apple gets too much hate for their walled garden. It frees them to specialize for their niche, and if you don't like it you don't have to use their products! I sure don't. There's no doubt in my mind that Asahi won't be as power efficient as MacOS on an M1. But so, so much of that efficiency comes from the hardware. If Apple could make an x86 chip that power efficient just on software alone, they presumably would have. Plus, though I'm obviously no expert, I vaguely recall reading that offloading to the smaller cores is supported on Asahi, which is a good portion of the efficiency.