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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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1080 points antipaul | 2 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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gaul ◴[12 Nov 20 02:58 UTC] No.25065914[source]▶
MacBook Air with M1 vs. XPS 13 with Tiger Lake i7-1165G7:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4306696?baselin...

Single core similar and multicore 50% better for MacBook.

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johnsolo1701 ◴[12 Nov 20 03:28 UTC] No.25066077[source]▶
And the Dell is $500 more
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stu2b50 ◴[12 Nov 20 03:49 UTC] No.25066215[source]▶
To think I lived to see the day when you buy a macbook for value
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1. acdha ◴[12 Nov 20 03:59 UTC] No.25066285[source]▶
If you were alive a decade ago, you already have. When the SSD transition started the MacBook Air was a surprisingly good value with a better quality SSD than almost any of the PC options at any price (integrated controller versus the overhead of a separate chip) and most of the sub-$1k competition had spinning metal.
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2. speedgoose ◴[12 Nov 20 06:50 UTC] No.25067172[source]▶
Meanwhile they kept spinning metal on the iMac for a decade.