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Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by vetinari on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @05:46PM (#42120645)
So get a stronger one. There will be always something that is better on one or another side.

I have 13th gen i7, with 64 GB RAM and 2 TB ssd (and 2.5 GbE). It was 800 EUR + VAT, last year. How much would similar Mac Mini cost?

Not a fair comparison either.

Edit: 69W for the NUC is not TDP. It is 69W power brick that ships with the machine.

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Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by attentive on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @06:16PM (#42120998)
what do you get in https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0 ? - m4 mini is 45 it seems.
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Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by vetinari on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @11:12AM (#42127288)
16.6 in Firefox, 19.8 in Chrome (Ubuntu 24.04, both browsers in flatpak).
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Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by vetinari on Thursday November 14, 2024 @06:43AM (#42135272)
A few more datapoints, of course completely unscientific, because why not:

                         | Firefox | Chrome | Safari |  Edge
    =====================|=========|========|========|=======
    Intel 1360P (Ubuntu) |  16.6   |  19.8  |  n/a   |  n/a
    Apple M1 (MacOS)     |  24.6.  |  26.3  |  28.5  |  28
    AMD 2920X (Fedora)   |  12.3   |  11.9  |  n/a   |  n/a
    AMD 2920X (Windows)  |  12.2   |  n/a   |  n/a   |  14.9
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Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by Symbiote on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @06:04PM (#42120881)
How noisy is it?

I made a fanless NUC 7 (!) years ago with a special case, and it's perhaps due for replacement.

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Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency by vetinari on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @06:15PM (#42120990)
Still can be heard, but it is not so annoying as it was. The fan noise is, how to describe it, softer?

Comparing nuc7i7dnke to nuc13anki7.

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