Re:Apple reports third quarter results
by Gigachad on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:32PM
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Also have a gaming desktop, and I just find myself using my macbook more. The macbook "feels" faster even though on benchmarks it's not. The mac just never misses a frame. No bugs, no random hangs, no noticeable delays doing anything.
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The thing I find is, the arm Mac’s have way better feeling input. I don’t mean the hardware end but the latency from key stroke to appearing on screen.
I don’t think it’s just down to macOS because the Intel Mac’s didn’t feel as good. I think it’s likely down to the E cores and moving more of the IO handling processors onto the SoC (according to the Asahi folks anyway)
When my Intel Mac or AMD PC are under load, input struggles to fight with the things taking up resources. And that might be as simple as running Teams which is a resource hog at the most random times.
The Arm Macs never hit that issue for me even when I’m using aggressive loads.
Re:Apple reports third quarter results
by devinprater on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:27AM
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Wow, that's good to know, because that's something I feel a lot when going from my Intel MBP to my AMD Windows laptop, especially important for accessibility (VoiceOver).