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Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by ashirviskas on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @08:05AM (#45180782)
OS does matter, with Linux my M1 macbook gets kinda hot and it cannot do more than 1.5-2h of google meetings with cameras on. IIRC google meetings on macos were at least a bit more efficient.

Though it has definitely been getting better in the last 1.5 years using Asahi Linux and in some areas it is a better experience than most laptops running Linux (sound, cameras, etc.). The developers even wrote a full fledged physical speaker simulator just so it could be efficiently driven over its "naive" limits.

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Re:AMD Claims Arm ISA Doesn't Offer Efficiency Advantage ove... by sgc on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @10:53AM (#45182751)
That is more a "who is controlling access to hardware drivers matters" problem. I wouldn't be surprised if macOS was still a tiny bit more efficient with a level playing field, but we will never know.
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