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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.

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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.

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