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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by stouset on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:28AM (#38081287)
It really, really was. I’d been used to barely-noticeable performance gains for a decade or more. The responsiveness under load of the M1s made them feel like a decade of performance improvements overnight.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by ravetcofx on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:21AM (#38086207)
This was especially true with Apple/Intel thermal envelope, I don't know of any other manufacturer that purposefully ran their CPUs to the point of throttling just to keep fan noise down, and in such thin machines with wafer thin heatsinks for design aesthetics. I think they made the last few gens of Intel they used worse than they were (to be fair Intel did have poor TDP till recent 12th Gen)
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