[elcdodedocle]

bollocks.

M1 devices are quality products. A more than necessary innovation. I expect them to do well if sold at reasonable prices.

The strategy of trying to sell them as outperforming the big boys on computationally intensive tasks, on the other hand, is plain absurd.

[rsynnott]

And, yet (with important caveats, especially around core count right now), they, er... do? I mean, what are you looking for? People to fake benchmarks to show them as slower than they actually are?

[elcdodedocle]

I do a lot of work for personal projects on an old 2.6Kg 2011 laptop I never felt the need to replace. I have no doubt I can produce benchmarks on this laptop involving daily tasks any average user does that would destroy any M1 device. Also I can do things on it no M1 device can reliably do right now and won't do for a while, perhaps ever or until M2 are already out (docker much?). My point is I am tired of useless biased benchmarks. Just tell people what they are: Laptops running on smartphone tech. Powerful enough to do most if not all daily tasks without any perceivable performance impact or inconvenience for the average user. Also way more efficient and cheaper to produce. It is very simple, and marketable. Just the integration with smartphone apps is already a super nice selling point, why not make it the core of the marketing strategy instead of those convoluted tricky and misguiding benchmarks and claims? What the Appleshpere is doing is comparing apples to oranges. Like: Hey look how much faster hackernews is compared to facebook! Ok, sure, whatever.