Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by Mindwipe on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:18AM (#25070756)

> Although I personally care about every point you listed, I don’t think most buyers care about any of them.

Buyers don't especially care about performance either to be honest, unless they care about one of those factors in order to need it.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by spideymans on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:13PM (#25071961)

Consumers absolutely care that their Apple MacBook Pro has 20 hours of battery life, when the comparable XPS has only 10 hours or whatever.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by thw0rted on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:51AM (#25112307)

The ROI for battery life falls off at a certain point, right? For phones, it's probably about a day -- how often is it a problem to plug in your phone at some point in a 24-hour period? -- and for laptops it's often about a full workday, 8-10 hours. I'm not saying that a 20-hour laptop battery isn't an incredible accomplishment, but I do think that I care a lot less about 20 vs 10 hours than I do about 10 vs 5.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by jimnotgym on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:24PM (#25074445)

And then sit at a desk all day within reach of a power socket

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by rowanG077 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:47PM (#25075530)

This. The amount of times I've truly needed more then a couple of hours of battery life are rare. I think most people think they want more battery life when they really don't need it. Just add more cooling to stop those processors from throttling all the time.

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