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 oddevan on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:39AM (#25070983)

I agree for the most part; the exception would be if I were running the small machine as a server. I know this is outside of most use cases, but if I were buying a machine to have on all the time (Plex, email, whatever), I'd want to at least feel like it's not driving up my electric bill.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by StillBored on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:50AM (#25071101)

This is where idle power matters. I recently replaced a pretty low power atom in my nas with a i3-9100F. The peak power usage is probably a good 2x higher, but the idle power is just a couple watts, so I expect my average power draw to be much less since the power draw under plex/etc is about the same and the machine sits idle most of the time.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by frank2 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:55PM (#25072548)

My tiny desktop is on all the time (but idle most of the time) and that was the frame in which I wrote my comment.

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