My wife’s 8gb m1 runs faster and cooler than my now-disposed-of i5 16gb Thinkpad from the same time. It still feels like it has years of life left vs the Thinkpad which I dumped.
The issue isn’t apple doing this–its that the other manufacturers put out hit-and-miss laptops that always seem to have something wrong with them (thermals, noise, battery, screen, touchpad). Not that apple laptops haven’t had problems either, but at least apple gets attention when they screw up.
But were they doing equal workloads that were both using lots of memory?
Because for light workloads, of course a modern faster chip that sips power is going to run faster and cooler than a slower space heater from Intel. Nothing to do with the amount of RAM unless you’re significantly exceeding the amount of available RAM.
Honestly this is why I put up with Apple’s shenanigans. Everything else on the market just seems to be either cheap garbage on the low end or clunky and still expensive (if not as much) on the high end.
I’m a software engineer and at work I have both an M2 MBP and a Dell Precision mobile workstation with I think 12th Gen i7. I cheaped out a bit on the Dell because I don’t need it as much as my MBP, but they were both expensive, high end laptops.
I’m running Ubuntu 22.04 on the Dell, and it’s… fine. It does what I need it to, but it doesn’t feel nearly as nice to use as my MBP. Maybe it would be better with Windows.
After using a Mac laptop for the past decade plus everything else just feels like garbage, especially when you factor in weight, display quality, touchpad quality, power management, cooling, etc.
For desktops it’s different… I built my own gaming PC and it’s great. But laptops… IMO there’s just nothing that can beat a Mac when it comes to overall product quality.
My wife’s 8gb m1 runs faster and cooler than my now-disposed-of i5 16gb Thinkpad from the same time. It still feels like it has years of life left vs the Thinkpad which I dumped.
The issue isn’t apple doing this–its that the other manufacturers put out hit-and-miss laptops that always seem to have something wrong with them (thermals, noise, battery, screen, touchpad). Not that apple laptops haven’t had problems either, but at least apple gets attention when they screw up.
Just got an M3 iMac with 8GB for the kitchen counter and it f’in screams with 2 browsers open, Excel, Word, and Power Point running.
But were they doing equal workloads that were both using lots of memory?
Because for light workloads, of course a modern faster chip that sips power is going to run faster and cooler than a slower space heater from Intel. Nothing to do with the amount of RAM unless you’re significantly exceeding the amount of available RAM.
Honestly this is why I put up with Apple’s shenanigans. Everything else on the market just seems to be either cheap garbage on the low end or clunky and still expensive (if not as much) on the high end.
I’m a software engineer and at work I have both an M2 MBP and a Dell Precision mobile workstation with I think 12th Gen i7. I cheaped out a bit on the Dell because I don’t need it as much as my MBP, but they were both expensive, high end laptops.
I’m running Ubuntu 22.04 on the Dell, and it’s… fine. It does what I need it to, but it doesn’t feel nearly as nice to use as my MBP. Maybe it would be better with Windows.
After using a Mac laptop for the past decade plus everything else just feels like garbage, especially when you factor in weight, display quality, touchpad quality, power management, cooling, etc.
For desktops it’s different… I built my own gaming PC and it’s great. But laptops… IMO there’s just nothing that can beat a Mac when it comes to overall product quality.