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Re:MacBook Air M4 by Spunkie on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:50AM (#43268200)
The point is that benchmark is pretty useless and likely does not line up to what a user that is still running a intel air would expect the word "faster" even means.

When normal users are thinking "faster" they are really thinking about snappiness/responsiveness, not number crunching.

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Re:MacBook Air M4 by pqtyw on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @10:56AM (#43268276)
Those benchmarks seem to be more GPU based as well. e.g. something like Geekbench (not that it's necessarily that representative either) is just 2-3x faster.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m4-vs-intel_...

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