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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 | 4 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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faitswulff ◴[12 Nov 20 04:22 UTC] No.25066407[source]▶
This really flips the argument that Mac hardware is overpriced and underpowered on its head. Now Apple computers are a premium product from a performance perspective, as well.
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1. ProAm ◴[12 Nov 20 04:56 UTC] No.25066592[source]▶
> This really flips the argument that Mac hardware is overpriced and underpowered on its head.

This doesn't excuse years behavior not respecting their customers on (price + performance) divided by bugs.

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2. willio58 ◴[12 Nov 20 05:13 UTC] No.25066694[source]▶
Customers seem to be pretty happy with Apple in general so I can’t imagine they feel disrespected by the price and performance.
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3. fiddlerwoaroof ◴[12 Nov 20 05:49 UTC] No.25066880[source]▶
I’ve done this exercise a couple times: pick a random Apple laptop configuration and find an equivalent from another vendor: they’re frequently so close price-wise it doesn’t matter (depends on what you want, but I’m willing to pay $200 or so for macOS and not having to deal with Linux power management.)
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4. ProAm ◴[12 Nov 20 14:06 UTC] No.25069942{3}[source]▶
There was a period of time where the laptops were not updated for almost 5 years and the price didnt change. No one remembers the past