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>The M1 Macs are amazing This marketing campaign has to stop. That ARM chip isn't "amazing", it's a pretty good ARM chip, which took a herculean effort to eve
by boringuser2 3y ago
>The M1 Macs are amazing
This marketing campaign has to stop.
That ARM chip isn't "amazing", it's a pretty good ARM chip, which took a herculean effort to even bring to very very rough compatibility par with a standard x64 chip.
The x64 chips shopping now -- those are "amazing".
- matheusmoreira 3y agoIt's not a marketing campaign, it's my opinion. I own a laptop with one of those "standard" x64 chips, one of those huge gamer laptops with a good processor, a graphics card and three huge noisy fans. Hell I even reverse engineered bits and pieces of it to make Linux drivers. The truth is this thing is a piece of shit. For a mobile chip, it's rather performant in benchmarks. In practice it thermal throttles itself to uselessness seconds after you start a compiler just so it can hover at 90+ degrees celsius. I'm literally afraid of using this thing because it feels like it's gonna melt down. It gets uncomfortably hot to the touch whenever I insist on using it. That "pretty good" ARM chip Apple made has zero of these problems and higher performance. There's no way such a thing can be simply dismissed out of hand. As far as I'm concerned, Apple put other laptop manufacturers to shame. I seriously hope Intel stepped up their game as you're claiming but I'm not sure I want to take a chance. I really want to see Asahi Linux take off so I can buy one of those M1 macs.
- boringuser2 3y agoYou have a laptop that is poorly designed. X64 chips are made that are both performant and power efficient. I recommend the i5-1340p -- it's an animal.