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Let's be honest, the most computationally intensive thing anyone does is to open Chrome and have 20 tabs each with five different Flash ads. For the average us
by alextgordon 12y ago
Let's be honest, the most computationally intensive thing anyone does is to open Chrome and have 20 tabs each with five different Flash ads.
For the average user, it shouldn't matter what CPU they have in their machine. If their computer is slow, it's because that CPU is busy executing crapware.
- osivertsson 12y agoYet reviews of Core M machines by average users are almost all of them pointing to sub-par performance including premium products such as the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro, for which they paid $$$. Leaving this impression with users is not good for your brand in the long run. I think Intel optimized too much for battery life and TDP with Core M, and it was also priced and targeted at the wrong highend market.
- elcct 12y agoI have Core M machine and performance indeed was poor if you didn't pay attention to what you run. After getting rid of Flash, performance is actually very good and I am happy with it.
- alextgordon 12y agoIt's tough medicine but it needs to happen so that Microsoft, Apple, Google and all us programmers stop shipping slow, bloated crap. (Google can start by enabling click-to-flash in Chrome by default) Imagine if you installed Windows 98 on one of these things. It would fly. The CPU is perfectly capable of the workloads that users want to throw at it. The software isn't yet.
- dzhiurgis 12y agoIt's a GPU problem. The difference between Win98 and OS X 10.10 is screen resolution, animations and virtual desktops.
- baq 12y agomore like OEMs underestimated people's performance requirements.