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My 2019 i9 going strong as ever. With 64gb ram, really don’t need to upgrade for at least a couple more years.

I had the 2019 i9. The power difference and the cooling difference is astounding from the 2019 to the M1 (and the M1 is faster).

I actually use my laptop on my lap commonly and I think the i9 was going to sterilize me.

I had an 2019 i9 for a work laptop. It was absolutely awful, especially with the corporate anti-virus / spyware on it that brought it to a crawl. Fans would run constantly. Any sort of Node JS build would make it sound like a jet engine.

yeah I had the 8-core i9 and I was shocked at how much faster my M1 Air was when I got it. No fan and still acing the old MBP!

Now on M2 MBP and will probably be using it for a very long time.

That was the worst laptop I've ever had. Not only was it turning the jet engines on when you tried to do something more demanding that moving mouse around, it throttled thermally so much that you literally could not move that mouse around.

I mean, before the i9, I had a shitty XPS 13" so it's been a huge relative upgrade to me.

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