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Re:MacBook Neo by kccqzy on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:00PM (#47338950)
> It might be worthwhile to ensure that a web app you're developing will work on a less powerful machine

If that’s your goal this machine is still too powerful. Web apps generally care about single thread performance. The machine has a single thread performance that exceeds any and all Intel/AMD processors, according to Geekbench (A18 Pro: 3445; Ryzen 9 9950X: 3385). My own test for ensuring my web app performs well involves a machine less than half as fast, and my web app runs with all assertions turned on.

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Re:MacBook Neo by zparky on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:17PM (#47339162)
> The machine has a single thread performance that exceeds any and all Intel/AMD processors

Not true at all: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/

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Re:MacBook Neo by mmcnl on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:06PM (#47339808)
True for Geekbench.
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Re:MacBook Neo by fsh on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:29PM (#47340084)
Which notoriously favors anything made by Apple.
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Re:MacBook Neo by NetMageSCW on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:47PM (#47343413)
Said only by those that don’t favor Apple.
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Re:MacBook Neo by klausa on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:32PM (#47345645)
Those chart seem _very_ suspect when it comes to Apple CPUs, to the point I don't think they're worth considering much.

M3 Ultra being fastest in single core than M4 or A19 Pro doesn't make any sense.

Those chart also suggest that M3->M4 was a _regression_ in performance, which, is... an interesting conclusion.

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