M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU

Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by jedberg on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:11PM (#26338489)

I would have said the same a couple years ago, but nowadays I can get an external 5TB solid state drive for a few hundred $$ that easily fits in my laptop case. As long as my OS runs from the internal disk, I don't really need much more. Everything in the cloud anyway. :)

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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by smoldesu on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:39PM (#26338692)

My concern is more with the longevity of the drive. SSD failures are only a matter of time, and these new Macbooks are going to be bricked once they hit their TBW limits.

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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by Decade on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:42AM (#26344639)

There’s a very good chance that the MacBook is outdated or otherwise broken by the time the SSD fails. I’ve been using SSDs for about 10 years, and I’m not the heaviest user, but so far I’ve never had an SSD fail from wear. Thumb drives, sure, but not SSDs yet.

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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by moistbar on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:02AM (#26342522)

I have no idea why you're downvoted. This is absolutely a valid concern and one of the biggest reasons why I'm staunchly anti-Apple.

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