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Re:The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer by soulbadguy on Saturday July 08, 2023 @02:09PM (#36647073)
> I didn't see Apple anywhere near the top of the list for CPU single or multithreaded

Probably wasn't normalized as perf per watt.

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Re:The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer by hospitalJail on Saturday July 08, 2023 @06:37PM (#36649471)
>Probably wasn't normalized as perf per watt.

Of course, that is a marketing metric, not something to genuinely care.

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Re:The ARM powered ThinkPad x13s, as a developer by tredre3 on Saturday July 08, 2023 @07:53PM (#36649939)
We're discussing laptops here. Performance per watt is possibly one of the most important metric to the average consumer even if they don't know it by name.

Better battery life + less heat = more comfort.

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