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Laptop with fan barely beats laptop without a fan on a 6 minute benchmark, more at 11. The M3 is throttling and almost keeping pace, Tomshardware actually know
by bearjaws 2y ago
Laptop with fan barely beats laptop without a fan on a 6 minute benchmark, more at 11.
The M3 is throttling and almost keeping pace, Tomshardware actually knows this since they have the Geekbench score for the M3 Macbook pro, which of course beats the X-elite.
It's a huge leap for Qualcomm, but I think the comparison is kind of ruined when its obviously been staged to thermal throttle and has parroted the same benchmarks that Qualcomm selected themselves...
- w0m 2y agoThat's a bit unfair when not including a fan for the ~same price point is a pretty harsh anti-consumer move I think.
- librasteve 2y agoerr you pay to NOT have to listen to a fan
- w0m 2y agoyou pay for the right to feel smug and get thermal throttled if you open up too many chrome tabs.
- librasteve 2y agosmug, me? I am a SWE with a MBA and I never get thermal throttled. What am I doing wrong?
- ColonelPhantom 2y agoThen why is the fanless model, the Air, the cheapest laptop Apple is selling?
- librasteve 2y agoI happily pay extra for an MBA (vs an equivalent pc) because there is no fan noise