16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile

Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by vgchh on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:59PM (#25127082)

This is the Apple equivalent of a Tesla showing up and out competing much more expensive cars on the performance. It feels like a huge disruption and probably Apple’s chance to gain significant PC market share.

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:12PM (#25128234)

> the Apple equivalent of a Tesla showing up and out competing much more expensive cars on the performance

Which was Tesla's equivalent of Jobs walking on stage with the iPhone, itself an homage to his iMac G3 turnaround, in turn a recapitulation of his promotion of the Apple II.

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by spronkey on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:55AM (#25148222)

The issue with this is that Apple has the same problem that they have had for years - they don't really offer mainstream products.

Even their most inexpensive products are on the higher end of the pricing spectrum, and they could be 5x the performance but it still wouldn't matter.

There's a reason why Chromebooks are so popular and it sure isn't anything to do with their performance.

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by unsigner on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:34PM (#25130186)

The difference being that Apple can actually manufacture the numbers needed to make a difference.

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