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What's the market for Mac minis if not desktop nor laptop?

• wmf 2y ago
  Desktop spans a wide range. Mac minis should be compared against NUCs or cheap PCs, not high-end PCs.
  • menaerus 2y ago
    M4 is Apple's top-of-the-line CPU design atm and this very same CPU is used across all their products and not only Mac Mini's. It's used in MacBook Pro. Is M4 TDP different in MacBook Pro than what it is in Mac Mini?
    • wmf 2y ago
      M4 is Apple's weakest CPU.
      • menaerus 2y ago
        It is not. It is more powerful than M1 and M2 and somewhat at the margin with the M3. > M4 delivers up to 1.5x faster CPU performance over the powerful M2 This is from Apple's first public announcement of M4.
• attentive 2y ago
  Cost matters. Let's not forget about electricity/cooling cost as well. That said, I wonder what would desktop cost that is better or equal in https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0 https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0 on m4 mini. Does it even exist?
• ywvcbk 2y ago
  Was there a single laptop chip included in the benchmark? They are comparing a 5w CPU with 80-200w ones.. which is entirely pointless.
  • menaerus 2y ago
    I don't think it is entirely pointless but what I think it is pointless is to presumably leave so much performance on the table for a device that does not even run on a battery.
  • pxmpxm 2y ago
    There were no laptops being compared... Performance per watt is a thing that matters for systems where you don't have a lot of watts. Desktops are not that.