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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by HatchedLake721 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:18AM (#25124691)
Not very impressive a CPU at 7-8W power drain beats or just trails behind a desktop class $799 Ryzen 9 5950x at +49W consumption in single threaded performance?
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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by vbezhenar on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:11AM (#25125415)
Mac mini is a plugged computer. I don't care whether it drains 7W or 700W. Electricity is cheap. And the fact that it trails behind AMD on a better node means that its design is inferior or not fully uncapped.
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Re:2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test by nottorp on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:34PM (#25128539)
Are you the kind that can't hear their computer fan because they wear headphones?

And/or the kind that keeps their laptop plugged in all the time?

Some people do care about cool, quiet and long battery life.

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