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I’ve got an i9 10th gen Mac with 128GB of RAM and a 1TD SSD and I’ve got an m2 pro MacBook with 32GB of RAM The m2 absolutely destroys the performance of the i

• arp242 2y ago
  Undoubtedly, but what the previous poster said was "they continue to work fine". Not "they are of equal performance".
• umbra07 2y ago
  Right, but that's not the point. A 10th-gen i9 is still a very capable processor (ignoring the thermal issues).
• icedchai 2y ago
  The i9's were quite awful. I had one for a work laptop. The fans ran constantly and it still felt like a hot plate. And ran slow due to a combination of throttling and corporate security software that added tons of overhead.
• talldayo 2y ago
  The i9 destroys the performance of itself. It's very well-known that Apple undervolted their i9 models and even still couldn't engineer proper cooling for them. You can still get a sizable increase in performance running the same chip in a properly-cooled laptop instead of a Macbook. Everyone knows the i9 Mac is not some impressive Intel benchmark but instead the lowest point the Macbook has been at in a decade.