The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9

Re:The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9 by tambourine_man on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:29PM (#27362792)

Yeap. It helps that Intel has missed the ball in the last 5 years or so. And tech savvy users are used to watching CPU/RAM usage, which helps a lot too.

My wife had a “my computer is slow” issue the other day. Fans blowing like crazy, extremely hot, battery draining fast. Turns out, lsof was stuck on some corrupt preferences file. Killed the process and file and all was fine. Regular people lack the tools to diagnose the problem and just deal with it, restart or buy a new one. We really should make diagnosing easier.

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Re:The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9 by failwhaleshark on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:33PM (#27362814)

Replace Geek Squad with a very small (AI/ML) script.

No, seriously. Once the root cause is found, humanize the description of the problem and ask the user what they want to do about it.

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Re:The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9 by eli on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:50PM (#27362972)

Have you seen the software the Apple Genius Bar uses to troubleshoot problems? It’s all scripted out with lots of automation.

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Re:The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9 by failwhaleshark on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:01PM (#27363049)

Actually, no, I never use them.

I bet they would to reduce labor costs.

Desktop Reliability Engineering ;-)

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