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Re:The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9 by londons_explore on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @06:38PM (#27362377)
Best is to give them a number that approximately maps to performance.

The "pro" version might be an i8, while the budget version is i3. In a few years time, the pro version will be up to i12 while the budget version is now i8.

You have model numbers for when someone needs to look up some super specific detail.

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Re:The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9 by lostgame on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @11:53PM (#27377049)
Right. The issue I have with this is that we have i7 models that are from 5 and 10 years ago with vastly different performance due to their generation. If it was more iterative it would make more sense.
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