Is it better than M4?
If a laptop will need to be plugged in to deliver full performance, whilst blasting fans at full throttle, what is the point? (apart from server / workstation use, where you don't like MacOS or need different OS)
If a laptop will need to be plugged in to deliver full performance, whilst blasting fans at full throttle, what is the point? (apart from server / workstation use, where you don't like MacOS or need different OS)
In multi-threaded scenarios, for example, M chips are not better at all and AFAICR are worse than the Threadripper. So, a different trade-off really
Getting near desktop performance when plugged but portability and lower consumption when unplugged is a pretty good tradeoff.
And they suck big time. And, to add insult to injury, there are also desktops which use laptop CPUs, with the same (lack of) performance.
What sort of work load that sucks big time? Assuming the work load is even laptop focused in the first place.
For doing any kind of work that requires focus it is an absolute nightmare.
But she need a laptop to occasionally take it to Uni.
The CPU in itself should be pretty good by modern standards: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+Ultra+9+...
> (like even struggles to open Word).
Her issue is not the form factor. Is it the RAM ? did she activate all the marketing apps ? Is a bitcoin farmer running in the background ? I don't know, but it's worth looking into it.
For comparison, I have at hand a Surface Pro 8 that should be 3x slower than hers on sheer CPU benchmarks, and I can throw any run of mill task at it (do the taxes with 3~4 word documents, Excel, dozens of tabs in firefox and a call session in the background) and it's fine. It will burn trough battery life within an two or three hours under that load, and yes the fans will be running, but I have no issue of having it crawl when unplugged.
I'm jealous of the m series macbooks, fast, quiet, and cool on wall or battery.
Desktops for gaming? AMD makes the best gaming CPUs with the X3D series.
Most of the workforce use Windows.
You can also use Linux if you want on Intel&AMD.
M CPUs are great but constrained by Apple.