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If you can afford $30+ per month you can probably afford to finance a new M1-based Macbook (or even better/cheaper, a desktop PC) that would blow the "blazing f
by akarlsten 4y ago
If you can afford $30+ per month you can probably afford to finance a new M1-based Macbook (or even better/cheaper, a desktop PC) that would blow the "blazing fast" performance out of the water, right?
Single-core performance is obviously not a top priority for server CPUs, but is as far as I understand it very important in a browser context, where JS runs in a single thread (with certain exceptions like workers, etc.).
It's interesting to note then that the top-of-the-line AMD EPYC processors, which Mighty advertises that they use, have single-core performance scores of 2400-2900 in PassMark's CPU benchmarks while the cheapest baseline M1 used in the old Macbook Air scores a 3762. It even has the same number of total cores for multi-threaded tasks! (https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html)
Same thing with the RAM, while it's perhaps the most appealing part of the proposition, it's basically a commodity and 32GB is not outlandishly expensive for your own device (especially in the desktop space).
All the other stuff is basically free if you know how to download Chrome extensions and don't live in a place with bad internet infrastructure. Not to mention the myriad privacy concerns.
Mighty is perhaps very unfortunate that Apple decided to develop and release the M1 when they did, if they never had I can imagine this offering being a lot more appealing for semi-technical creatives stuck on old Intel MBPs (which seems to be the target audience?)