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Yeah, but the MBA is doing all that with just 10W (15W burst), while your hackintosh most likely consumes 400W. Not really comparable though.
by dschu 6y ago
Yeah, but the MBA is doing all that with just 10W (15W burst), while your hackintosh most likely consumes 400W.
Not really comparable though.
- ianhowson 6y agoI'm happy to pay for the electricity if I get faster builds. My daily driver is a Hackintosh and with the CPUs pegged pulls about 70W from the wall. The two displays add another 90W. M1 is impressively efficient but there's still a gap for fast, no-compromise workstations.
- kevindong 6y agoOn a desktop, power consumption doesn't really matter. But on a laptop, it matters a ton. Personally I prefer doing work from my couch rather than my desk; ergonomics and external monitors be damned.
- threeseed 6y ago> M1 is impressively efficient but there's still a gap for fast, no-compromise workstations. Apple has already said that they are releasing a workstation-class M1X/M2 next year. The point is that the M1 is already comparable to many workstations.
- izacus 6y agoAnd yet everyone keeps comparing those and claiming how much faster Air is supposed to be based on a very funny benchmark. Not sure how power use actually matters when I'm sitting and waiting for things to compile several times a day.
- postalrat 6y agoMaybe 400W burst with a fast graphics card. Do we have actual measurements from the MBA yet?
- sudosysgen 6y agoSure, but his Hackintosh isn't running a laptop chip. 15W X86 CPUs would probably compile that faster than the M1 if the difference from Intel is that small.