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Performance per watt is something no one cares about. Laptops are a tiny market compared to servers. I'm pretty sure desktops are even a larger market. I'd rath

• brucehoult 4y ago
  The only people who don't care about performance per Watt are those who have only one computer with a handful of cores and it is running off mains power. People running from batteries care a lot about performance per Watt. So do people running thousands or tens of thousands of computers in a warehouse. Not only does the electricity to run the computers cost more than the computers themselves, but it also costs a lot of money to build and run the cooling systems.
  • phendrenad2 4y ago
    > People running from batteries care a lot about performance per Watt This is a small market compared to servers. > So do people running thousands or tens of thousands of computers in a warehouse No, they care about total cost of ownership. Please set yourself a reminder for 5 years from now to check if server farms are using Apple M chips yet.
    • snvzz 4y ago
      >Please set yourself a reminder for 5 years from now to check if server farms are using Apple M chips yet. Apple would have to start selling these chips to third parties, first.
      • phendrenad2 4y ago
        Yes, and also the M1 would have to magically become suitable for server workloads.