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Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by KptMarchewa on Thursday June 09, 2022 @06:27AM (#31679520)
Power to performance efficiency.
Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by madduci on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:42AM (#31682613)
Also a Tesla Model 3 has a really good power to performance efficiency, but somehow people still like buying luxury and powerful cars.

It's just a metric, but the whole package is still not that awesome (software compatibility above all, but also limited amount of ports, the typical Apple walled garden, etc.)

Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by kube-system on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:55AM (#31682786)
Software compatibility is quite good on MacOS for all but specific niches, like industrial software or PC gaming. The same criticism could be said for Windows or Linux, which is why things like Wine and WSL exist.

There's no walled garden on MacOS.

Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by madduci on Friday June 10, 2022 @03:06AM (#31691011)
No absolutely, in fact I can develop and deploy apps to iPhone and iPads from Linux and Windows, without owning a Mac.
Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by throwawaylinux on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:10AM (#31679769)
Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by culopatin on Thursday June 09, 2022 @08:06AM (#31680159)
What laptops are shipping with this and are outperforming the Apple processors in real life?
Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by throwawaylinux on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:09PM (#31689519)
I'm not sure I was just responding to a claim about a CPU's performance per watt.
Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by StringyBob on Thursday June 09, 2022 @08:37AM (#31680432)
The quotes in that page have some of the most spectacularly misleading statistics I’ve seen for a while. Might as well point out that for telling the time looking at my watch is more energy efficient than looking at the clock in my car dashboard (and then calculating energy efficiency while comparing power consumption of a car and a watch)
Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by Infinitesimus on Thursday June 09, 2022 @07:52AM (#31680031)
> is said to

To most consumers, this will only be interesting if it's shipping in laptops.

Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by kayodelycaon on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:23AM (#31680842)
Is this a shipping product?
Re:When will Apple ship other M2 Macs? by throwawaylinux on Thursday June 09, 2022 @11:37PM (#31689713)
Not sure. It's likely a lot of small low power CPUs can beat the likes of M1 on perf/watt tasks though. That one was just the first hit I got.