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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by adolph on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:16AM (#25070740)
If you perform an integrated test, would you not perform unit tests? An unit test may show areas for easy improvement if other aspects of the total package are changed.

For example, if someone thought M1 was thermally constrained, they might decide to rip mini out of the case and attach a different cooling method.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by starfallg on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:34PM (#25075394)
Not saying that burst performance shouldn't be measured, but it shouldn't be the de-facto go-to performance measure like it is now with geekbench.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by gowld on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:28PM (#25072997)
If you run only unit tests, you don't get useful data.

> they might decide to rip mini out of the case and attach a different cooling method.

99% of customers will never do this.

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