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> Think about that: a laptop with no performance tradeoff compared to a high-end desktop. It helps if that high end desktop hasn't been updated in two years.
by reitzensteinm 14y ago
> Think about that: a laptop with no performance tradeoff compared to a high-end desktop.
It helps if that high end desktop hasn't been updated in two years.
For CPU performance, laptops lagging a couple of years behind desktops is more or less business as usual.
- lloeki 14y agoStill, we're talking about a Xeon here, not your typical desktop-variant Core Something. It was a powerhouse.
- reitzensteinm 14y agoThe benchmarks were lightly threaded, for which Xeons basically offer no advantage - they let you have more cores in a machine, and that's about all. For rendering and encoding, the 12 core 2010 Mac Pros would still slaughter a retina MBP. No competition. There are many impressive things about the retina MBP, but CPU performance is not one of them.
- Synaesthesia 14y agoI would say the CPU performance is very impressive, sure a 12 core will beat it at rendering, but the single threaded performance is amazing, and the super fast SSD makes it basically the fastest Mac ever in general usage.
- muro 14y agoEven worse, it's 4 years for GPUs.