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First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU

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wslh ◴[15 Nov 24 21:56 UTC] No.42151625[source]▶
I always ask about battery consumption... Apple seems to be on another galaxy right now. I decided to stop waiting and installed Parallels to run Ubuntu there... I really wish the best for Asahi Linux.
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winocm ◴[15 Nov 24 21:59 UTC] No.42151659[source]▶
The M3 Max laptops can cross-build FreeBSD at a fraction of the time of the ThinkPad, being at around 791 seconds for `make -j17` versus the T14s being at 3210 seconds (with `make -j12`) according to the post above.

No idea about power consumptions.

It still scares me.

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1. Sardtok ◴[15 Nov 24 22:12 UTC] No.42151797[source]▶
One is $1000 and the other is around $3000. So performance per dollar looks about right.
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2. wslh ◴[15 Nov 24 23:54 UTC] No.42152732[source]▶
Not only performance per dollar but also battery duration/consumption.
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3. sgerenser ◴[16 Nov 24 01:26 UTC] No.42153340{3}[source]▶
Not so on the M3 generation (nor the newer M4s). M3 Pro was particularly hobbled in this regard with only 6 performance cores vs 10 on the Max.
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4. liprais ◴[16 Nov 24 01:40 UTC] No.42153401{4}[source]▶
my m4 pro has 10 p cores as m4 max has ,get your facts right at least.
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5. ◴[16 Nov 24 09:20 UTC] No.42155443{5}[source]▶
6. danieldk ◴[16 Nov 24 09:26 UTC] No.42155472{3}[source]▶
No, M3 Pro is available with 11 or 12 cores. M3 Max with 14 or 16:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M3#Variants

Similarly, the M4 Pro is available with 12 or 14 cores, the M4 Max with 14 or 16:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M4#Comparison_with_other...

7. danieldk ◴[16 Nov 24 09:27 UTC] No.42155474{5}[source]▶
You can get the M4 Max with 12 performance cores.
8. sgerenser ◴[16 Nov 24 12:58 UTC] No.42156176{5}[source]▶
Comparing unbinned to unbinned, you get 10 P cores on the M4 Pro and 12 on the M4 Max. Regardless the original comment was regarding the M3 series, where there was an even larger difference between the M3 Pro and M3 Max (6 vs 10 P cores).