ryujin470@fedia.io to Technology@beehaw.org · 5 hours agoApple's budget MacBook Neo is beating the fastest x86 PC CPUs for single-core performancewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkApple's budget MacBook Neo is beating the fastest x86 PC CPUs for single-core performancewww.pcgamer.comryujin470@fedia.io to Technology@beehaw.org · 5 hours agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJrockwar@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22 hours agoUnlike the equivalent Windows 11 laptop with 32 GB of RAM and an Intel Celeron, where you’d get to experience that speed… Never. But sure, you can have all your apps frozen at once.
minus-squareu_tamtam@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·31 minutes agoto be fair, that wouldn’t be my pick at that pricepoint. That single-core performance would still be unmatched, but I would have something with better IO, more RAM, and more life in it.
minus-squareXLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·54 minutes agoI have so many questions about how they’re selling a laptop with that much RAM, especially right now, and that little CPU.
Unlike the equivalent Windows 11 laptop with 32 GB of RAM and an Intel Celeron, where you’d get to experience that speed… Never. But sure, you can have all your apps frozen at once.
to be fair, that wouldn’t be my pick at that pricepoint. That single-core performance would still be unmatched, but I would have something with better IO, more RAM, and more life in it.
I have so many questions about how they’re selling a laptop with that much RAM, especially right now, and that little CPU.