Comment by tracerbulletx
1 day ago
This mostly just shows you how far behind the M1 (which came out 5 years ago) all the non Apple laptops are.
1 day ago
This mostly just shows you how far behind the M1 (which came out 5 years ago) all the non Apple laptops are.
Was never really into Apple hardware (mainly the price), however I recently got an M1 Mac Mini and an iPhone for app development, and the inference speed for as you say, a 5 year old chip is actually crazy.
If they made the M series fully open for Linux (I know Asahi is working away) I probably would never buy another non-M series processor again.
I got an M1 Mac Mini somewhat recently as well, to replace my ~2012 Mac Mini that I use as a media center PC. And frankly, it's overkill. Used ones can be had for $200-$300 USD, lower side with cosmetic damage. An absolute steal, IMO.
Work gave me an m1 pro with 32gb on it. A year ago I put together one of those minisforum board+laptop apu with 64gb ram and 2tb nvme for not much money at the time, likely 500usd. For the performance sensitive software I was working on the 7935hs ran with about 50x more throughout using compilers with llvm backend.
You can still get an M1 Macbook Air at retail for $599 ($300 for refurbs), which is a Chromebook price for a laptop that is better in pretty much every respect than any Chromebook.
https://slickdeals.net/f/19004236-select-micro-center-stores...
MicroCenter has(had? OOS near me) M4 Minis for $400!
A remarkable bargain, even more so considering the recent hardware price hikes.