[thitcanh]

I guess it's not bad for a fanless 10-watt SoC the size of a stamp on an entry-level portable computer in a browser.

To get that kind of performance nearly 10 years ago in a desktop GPU, I bet you would need a whole lot of dollars, watts, and cube inches.

It is impressive unless you compare apples to oranges.

Plus, on bare metal it reaches 2.6 TFLOPs already.

[ChuckNorris89]

>entry-level portable computer

Not all computers are Macs and at €1000 starting price, it's the entry level Mac but by no means an entry level computer.

Entry level computers are in the €400 ballpark (i5/4500U, 8GB RAM, 256 SSD).

For €1000 you could get a pretty strong gaming computer which is by no means entry level.

[jbjbjbjb]

Entry level m1 is a quite a bit cheaper than that in euros.

[ChuckNorris89]

MSRP is actually quite a bit more, almost €1129.

https://www.apple.com/at/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air

Not saying you can't find it under that on some promotion somewhere but that really depends on market timing and on where you live.

For example in Austria you can't find it under €999 and that's definitely not entry level money as Apple's entry level comes at a premium and is not representative of the entire PC market entry level.

[littlestymaar]

Note that the price in Euro (almost?) always includes VAT, while in USD it almost never does. Which explains why albeit $1 < 1€, the displayed euro price is higher than the dollar price.

That being said, I agree with all you said.

[jbjbjbjb]

I was looking at Mac mini m1 on the German Apple store, for 799.

[chungus_khan]

Nearly 10 years ago a 2.6 TFLOP (FP32) GTX 660ti cost about $300 and had a TDP of 150w.

[thitcanh]

Kinda proving my point then? Power usage 15x higher and $300 is just for a card that is probably as big as a whole Mac Mini.

Now add the rest of the components and the prices, wattage and size shoots up exactly as described.