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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by ben-schaaf on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @12:13AM (#45035391)
This is easy to disprove. The Snapdragon X Elite has significantly better battery life than what AMD or Intel offer, and yet it's got the same number of cooks in the kitchen.

> Perfect example is trying to get to the bottom of why your windows laptop won't go to sleep and cooks itself in your backpack

Same thing happens in Apple land: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745897. My Framework 16 hasn't had this issue, although the battery does deplete slowly due to shitty modern standby.

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by williamDafoe on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @03:44AM (#45036623)
X Elite is not better than Ryzen5. Not better at all! Its why i own a hx365 AMD laptop...
Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? by ben-schaaf on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:16AM (#45037177)
Do you have a source on that? From every benchmark I've looked at the X Elite gets similar battery life to Apple Silicon, pretty far ahead of AMD.