M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Performance

Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by foldr on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:36AM (#29117096)

What Ryzen laptop would you recommend with performance and battery life roughly equivalent to an M1 MacBook Air? A lot of people on HN obsess over benchmarks, but people buy laptops, not CPUs. I haven’t yet seen a product that’s competitive with the M1 MacBook Air in its niche (which to be fair isn’t really a niche - a laptop for what 90% of people use their laptops for).

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Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by alwillis on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:14AM (#29120413)

I haven’t yet seen a product that’s competitive with the M1 MacBook Air in its niche

This is the inconvenient truth of these discussions. If anything, Apple is under playing the bang for the buck and performance per watt of these machines.

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Re:M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Perform... by onphonenow on Friday November 05, 2021 @06:06AM (#29117271)

Im also curious. I run amd on the desktop w good results- but not seeing the air competition yet when I last looked when air came out

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