> Just nobody believed those Geekbench benchmarks showing that in short benchmarks your phone could be faster than your laptop.
Except for a lot of the Apple-centric journalists and podcasters, who have been imagining for years how fast a desktop built on these already-very-fast-when-passively-cooled chips could be.
Not that that matters very much when experienced and real-world workload performance suffers, but as far as I can tell, the M1 is no slouch in that respect either.
I heard 10 years ago, or whatever, that the ipad 2 had the most power efficient CPU available, period. This was told at a keynote by an HPC scientist who cannot be said to be a «apple journalist». Apple have been doing well for a very long time and I’ve expected this moment since that keynote, basically.
OK, I misspoke. I heard the sentiment from the Apple-focused voices in my information bubble, doesn't mean that nobody else said it. It's just that "nobody believed those Geekbench benchmarks" is not completely true.
Except for a lot of the Apple-centric journalists and podcasters, who have been imagining for years how fast a desktop built on these already-very-fast-when-passively-cooled chips could be.
Not that that matters very much when experienced and real-world workload performance suffers, but as far as I can tell, the M1 is no slouch in that respect either.