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Fast enough for most ultrabook users. Being fastest this year is really not a big deal. If you're doing heavy media, gaming, or compiling you'll be on a differe

Fast enough for most ultrabook users. Being fastest this year is really not a big deal. If you're doing heavy media, gaming, or compiling you'll be on a different form factor.

izacus 3y ago
Yeah, but there's no reason for it - if you've ever used an ARM laptop system you'll see that you're just trading usable performance (they tend to be very laggy) for not much benefit. Modern AMD/Intel mobile Ultrabook chips aren't that much more power hungry.
- kramerger 3y ago
  I think it has been shown that whith ligt usage, the main power sink is the rest of the laptop (ports, display, sensors,... ) This is why Linux laptop experience improved significantly a few years back when they started disabling unused HDMI ports etc
- rbanffy 3y ago
  > if you've ever used an ARM laptop system Erm... A non-Apple ARM laptop you mean. But yes - these things feel like Celeron laptops for Xeon prices.
  - izacus 3y ago
    No, I wrote what I meant. I own both an M2 Mac, ARM Chromebook and Zen4 AMD laptop and the MacBook and AMD laptop are quite comparable these days, it's not like I run out of battery on any of them regularly. The Qualcomm powered Chromebook is the outlier with noticeably worse performance.
    - rbanffy 3y ago
      > it's not like I run out of battery on any of them regularly. It all depends on how and where your power adapters are scattered in your office. I definitely like not worrying about that with the Apples while, with the Dell, I'm constantly mindful about where the adaptor is (and carry one in my backpack).
      - jwells89 3y ago
        Yeah, I could confidently take my MacBook on a day trip sans charger, but I have yet to own a contemporary x86 laptop that could I could do the same with. That said, my newest x86 laptop is Intel Tiger Lake which wasn’t ever really good in that department.
627467 3y ago
The range of use cases including media, gaming and compiling on similar form factor MacBook Air Mx is enormous compared to this similarly priced laptop.

Fast enough for most ultrabook users. Being fastest this year is really not a big deal. If you're doing heavy media, gaming, or compiling you'll be on a different form factor.

izacus 3y ago

Yeah, but there's no reason for it - if you've ever used an ARM laptop system you'll see that you're just trading usable performance (they tend to be very laggy) for not much benefit. Modern AMD/Intel mobile Ultrabook chips aren't that much more power hungry.

kramerger 3y ago
I think it has been shown that whith ligt usage, the main power sink is the rest of the laptop (ports, display, sensors,... ) This is why Linux laptop experience improved significantly a few years back when they started disabling unused HDMI ports etc
rbanffy 3y ago
> if you've ever used an ARM laptop system Erm... A non-Apple ARM laptop you mean. But yes - these things feel like Celeron laptops for Xeon prices.
- izacus 3y ago
  No, I wrote what I meant. I own both an M2 Mac, ARM Chromebook and Zen4 AMD laptop and the MacBook and AMD laptop are quite comparable these days, it's not like I run out of battery on any of them regularly. The Qualcomm powered Chromebook is the outlier with noticeably worse performance.
  - rbanffy 3y ago
    > it's not like I run out of battery on any of them regularly. It all depends on how and where your power adapters are scattered in your office. I definitely like not worrying about that with the Apples while, with the Dell, I'm constantly mindful about where the adaptor is (and carry one in my backpack).
    - jwells89 3y ago
      Yeah, I could confidently take my MacBook on a day trip sans charger, but I have yet to own a contemporary x86 laptop that could I could do the same with. That said, my newest x86 laptop is Intel Tiger Lake which wasn’t ever really good in that department.

627467 3y ago

The range of use cases including media, gaming and compiling on similar form factor MacBook Air Mx is enormous compared to this similarly priced laptop.