The main power advantage of the apple chips is when the system is mostly idle - under mid to high load power to watt has been comparable for a few years already (at least AMD and Apple, intel was way behind - but I guess they caught up recently). The main reason behind my M3 MBP back then wasn't so much power efficiency - but that I can get it with 96GB of RAM.
It's nice that I can go a full office day without charging - the previous x86 notebook couldn't, but a decent one from the M3 generation probably could as well. But also if I put proper load an that thing the Macbook battery is done in less than 2 hours.
raises hand, but point taken when painting with broad strokes
Re:Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux
by porridgeraisin on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:31AM
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> Framework 12 ... days without charging
I don't see how? it is a 50Wh battery. Even at 6W that is about 8h of usage? On what OS + workload on x86 are you seeing just 6W usage? Or is it that each day your usage is only 2 hours?
My amd thinkpad idles at 3w, watching youtube is about 4.5-5w.
Granted Im not compiling large projects on a train all day but who is.