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I find the cinebench benchmarks meh, every YouTuber and every publisher uses it, few YouTubers do more of a practical test which is quite more useful. I would l

• rconti 2y ago
  It's a fair point, but Apple's also taken a lot of heat for comparing their new models to ancient ones rather than the previous one, so that they can show an even bigger performance jump.
  • DanHulton 2y ago
    Counterpoint: I see a lot of people in discussion threads talking about if they should upgrade from their M1 purchase. (And I count myself in their number.) It's highly likely Apple knows this, and not too much of a stretch to think they're communicating the number that they think it's important to this customer - how much better it would be if you upgraded today.
• brailsafe 2y ago
  It's very predictable at this point that nearly everyone has the same videos, it feels like me trying to not plagiarize Wikipedia in middle school; "I'll change a word here, rephrase a sentence there, done!". Also true in many other content categories, everyone uses the same source material, same review units, same benchmarks, often the same editing style. I'd say it's a negative, but I've been watching less and less of it since noticing the pattern.
• sgarland 2y ago
  Same. For me, I took a program I wrote / am writing that’s extremely CPU and disk intensive, and compared the execution time. It’s 2x faster on an M4 Pro compared to an M1. That’s worth it to me.