Re:Linux is not “ready to run” on Apple Silicon, but give it...
by howinteresting on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:29AM
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My point is just that while the M1 Ultra Mac Studio certainly hits a great point in the design space, there are many other points that will serve consumers and production users better and that the actual statement I was responding to:
> it's going to take massive investment by intel or AMD to catch up in the price/power/performance category
in the context of desktop workstations is simply untrue. The post compared a Mac Studio to a Threadripper that retails for over $3000, but my point was that it's not a fair comparison: a high-end consumer part that retails for less than 20% of the price also beats the Mac Studio at many use cases, such as code compilation.
There's this weird thing I see where a lot of people think, probably due to Apple's marketing, that Apple Silicon hardware is not just "strictly better" but a gargantuan leap beyond x86. That just isn't true, now that AMD is on a comparable process node. Apple Silicon is better at some things and worse at others, which is great -- competition is good! -- and completely normal.
> it's going to take massive investment by intel or AMD to catch up in the price/power/performance category
in the context of desktop workstations is simply untrue. The post compared a Mac Studio to a Threadripper that retails for over $3000, but my point was that it's not a fair comparison: a high-end consumer part that retails for less than 20% of the price also beats the Mac Studio at many use cases, such as code compilation.
There's this weird thing I see where a lot of people think, probably due to Apple's marketing, that Apple Silicon hardware is not just "strictly better" but a gargantuan leap beyond x86. That just isn't true, now that AMD is on a comparable process node. Apple Silicon is better at some things and worse at others, which is great -- competition is good! -- and completely normal.