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Yeah I remember that. I bought an M1 Mac Mini. My Ryzen 3700X was on ebay the day after.
by cjk2 2y ago
Yeah I remember that. I bought an M1 Mac Mini. My Ryzen 3700X was on ebay the day after.
- microtonal 2y agoI think it'll be a long time until we see an inflection point like that [1]. I also had a Ryzen 3700X, high-end CPU and case fans to make it somewhat quiet under load. Then I got the MacBook Air M1, which was as fast in multi-core use, but felt much faster in daily use to much better single thread performance (turns out that large builds spend quite some time on portions where everything blocks on one unit and the amount of parallelism is 1). And it was completely quiet (no fan). The Air M1 felt like magic at the time, I could have the power of the 3700X on the train and insanely long battery life. [1] That said, I got an M3 Pro for work and my private laptop has an M1 Pro and the difference in single-thread performance is certainly noticeable.
- cjk2 2y agoI did the same thing with the MBA but ended up on an M1 Pro. I haven't used anything newer yet but will probably upgrade next year to an M4 Pro (?)