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Re:ELI5: Why Apple's silicon consumption is so much better t... by jauntywundrkind on Friday July 26, 2024 @08:05PM (#41083454)
That's not really true anymore. They can idle a little better but AMD has better power efficiency in use at a wide variety of uses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41021887

Apple does have a huge advantage, of having on package ram, which is easier (lower power) to drive at high speed speed.

There's endless people who will mindlessly repeat that ARM is more efficient x86, but it feels much more of a received dogma. Once you get past the decoder stage, there's far more in common than different between cores. The instruction set simply doesn't make a big enough difference.

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Re:ELI5: Why Apple's silicon consumption is so much better t... by kwanbix on Saturday July 27, 2024 @03:31AM (#41085016)
At work I got a MacBook M2 first and it is absolutelly cold. Then I requested a change to a ThinkPad, because I find MacOS super weird so not an Apple fanboy, more or less same year (maybe one year before it so M1 year) and it gets hot. Really hot. And I mostly use browser apps, so is not like I am playing games, doing rendering, or AI, or any high consuming job and the difference is huge. The M2 also lasts 16 hours on one battery, maybe more. The thinkpad luckily 8.
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