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Re:Apple Q4/2022 by ac29 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @06:41PM (#33364972)
> If Apple is compiling my application 1.5x as fast

The M1 Max (the highest end chip available in a Mac laptop) is slower than competition from Intel and AMD, though. I'm not sure what its supposed to be 50% faster than, unless you are only comparing it to old Intel Macs.

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Re:Apple Q4/2022 by chrisseaton on Thursday October 27, 2022 @06:44PM (#33365013)
When it came out, the new MacBook Air had better single-core performance than every Intel Mac that ever existed. Not just the Airs - all of them ... on a lower power budget.

I'm sure you can get even faster single-core by brute-force burning power, but Apple were trying to do something more intelligent by balancing with power.

I think anyone seriously trying to claim they can't see any value in this is clearly just being silly.

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Re:Apple Q4/2022 by alwillis on Thursday October 27, 2022 @07:44PM (#33365599)
The M1 Max (the highest end chip available in a Mac laptop) is slower than competition from Intel and AMD, though.

Yeah, that’s not true; it doesn’t even make any sense. And certainly not performance per watt.

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Re:Apple Q4/2022 by KerrAvon on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:41PM (#33366055)
You have to cherry-pick pretty brutally to make that statement true.
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