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I don't think this is what makes Apple jump ahead of the competition. M-series is a low-wattage SOC. I recently bought a lunar lake laptop, which is a similar
by const_cast 1y ago
I don't think this is what makes Apple jump ahead of the competition. M-series is a low-wattage SOC.
I recently bought a lunar lake laptop, which is a similar design but x86. I'm easily getting 12+ hours on Linux and performance is superb. Turns out all it takes is putting everything on the chip and then running it at 15 watts. Which, I think, also proves you do NOT need ARM for such low wattage with acceptable performance. You just need really new production lines and the right chip design.
- vizzier 1y agoNot entirely convinced its just hardware as we're seeing from the now direct comparisons between windows and steamos. [1] Linux based SteamOS is thrashing windows in both gaming performance and using less battery to do it. https://www.techspot.com/news/108059-steamos-significantly-improves-performance-battery-life-lenovo-legion.html https://www.techspot.com/news/108059-steamos-significantly-i...
- const_cast 1y agoI would agree it's not just hardware, software also plays a role. Tons of background services connected to the internet are going to drain battery like crazy, we learned this with mobile phones a decade ago. However, I'm not convinced MacOS is much better than Windows here. I'm sure It's a little bit better though - I've never seen MacOS pinned at 100% CPU usage doing seemingly nothing.