[darkwater]

> 4. They are using Asahi Linux on the M2.[2]

To you and all the rest saying the same: do you really think that when trying to judge a processor speed you should run benchmarks with different OSes? So, why not benchmark Lenovo + Windows vs MacBook + macOS? Those are the most sold configurations for both laptops, no? To me, it makes sense try to compare the raw HW with the same layer of software, unless there is some big glaring missing feature in Linux, inhibiting the use of some HW capability of the M2 processor.

[lazyier]

It's a Linux website. They are not interested in the performance of the CPU with Windows or Mac OS.

As far as the mismatched CPU and whatnot... These are the same sort of CPUs that you can get in the same form factor at around the same price.

So the comparison is valid.

The only thing suspect is the 8 vs 16GB of RAM. But since these are CPU-bound benchmarks I don't know how much of a actual difference that will make.

[nh2]

> They are not interested in the performance of the CPU with Windows or Mac OS.

Phoronix regularly benchmarks across OSs.

Type "Windows" into the search bar in the top right. Example: https://www.phoronix.com/review/windows-linux-mid22adl

The memory difference might be addressed with the `mem=8G` Linux kernel boot parameter.

[411111111111111]

Usually these comments are by people that are angry that their preferred choice didn't win the benchmark and try to find a rationale to invalidate the finding.

Considering the context, they probably wanted apple to clearly win and not just be basically on par or slightly behind.

Often these people aren't even aware of this themselves.

I found the stats to be missing the most important datapoint for laptops however. If performance/wattage is irrelevant you really don't need a laptop after all, and they're even using the low energy /underperforming ryzen chipset...

I know they couldn't get the data from the drivers on Linux, unfortunate nonetheless.

[jl6]

Raw hardware comparison is interesting, but it’s also valid to want to test overall system performance, which Apple have demonstrated is a collaboration between hardware and software (particularly for battery life).