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Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production by epolanski on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @06:32PM (#48391040)
I have an M3 ultra and a coworker got a Linux laptop with Omarchy which blows my machine. Don't remember the hardware.

Needless to say my M3 also sucks compared to a very good desktop.

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Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production by runjake on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @06:44PM (#48391135)
Depends on the workload.

The M3 Ultra is no slouch. It sits at the top with best processors on both single-core and multi-core x64 processors.

Meanwhile my mini PC with a Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, which is nowhere near an M3 Ultra, feels much snappier using it as a day to day desktop in both Linux and Windows. I think this speaks more to the sluggishness of the macOS experience rather than hardware performance.

But, then I start doing something data/gpu/local LLM intensive and my M3 Max shines.

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