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Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores

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Re: Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores

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Post by littlecranky67 »

mrheosuper wrote: post #524
littlecranky67 wrote: post #388

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As an owner of an Macbook Pro M4 I am actually looking to sell and downgrade to the Air - because during my day-to-day developing I can't get close to utilizing the M4. Regarding the limitations: 256GB is enough for me, because 95% of the time I use my Macbook docked into my Thunderbolt dock, where I have an external drive (also for Timemachine backups) so plenty of space for big files that I rarely use of can do wit…

Not everyone has the luxury of having a rigid setup, that you can just plug in your dock and good to go. In fact, if that is your usecase, mac mini is a much better option.

Well the price difference between an M4 MacbookPro and Air buys you several docking stations.

Also a MacMini is not mobile, and even if I take the mini, it neither has a screen or keyboard. The thing is I don't need it WHILE I'm traveling, I need my laptop at the destination. And because that is less than 5% of the time I use it, there is no issue in carrying the external 2.5" HDD that I keep on my dock. You personal use-case may vary.

Re: Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores

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Post by ed_blackburn »

theta_d wrote: post #456
ed_blackburn wrote: post #446

I keep asking, surely, I'm not the only potential customer: where's my ARM 64, Linux Mac mini equivalent? I'd settle for a laptop form if I must.

Not the same form factor but here you go: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1.1-n1/configure

Thank you :-)

Re: Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores

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Post by ed_blackburn »

Cheer2171 wrote: post #457
ed_blackburn wrote: post #446

I keep asking, surely, I'm not the only potential customer: where's my ARM 64, Linux Mac mini equivalent? I'd settle for a laptop form if I must.

The Snapdragon X Elite has tons of laptop models and a few mini PCs like: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-IdeaCentre-Mini-x-debut... The Elite X2 is near release and supposedly on par with these M5 numbers: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M5-9-Cores-Processor-Ben...

Thank you :-)

Re: Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores

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Post by necovek »

Xenoamorphous wrote: post #370
pmontra wrote: post #343

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Most laptops sit on a desk and never see a lap, even Macs. Benchmarking how long people could sit with a laptop on their lap while running Geekbench could be an interesting metric though.

I can't even remember PCs now (been 10+ years on Macs) but heat is still an issue (especially in summer in hot climates) if the thing is going to throttle.

Heat is an issue with Macs too: if it wasn't, you'd have Air chassis with the performance of M4 Max/Ultra.

Yes, they've done some nice things to get the performance and energy efficiency up, but it's not like they've got some magic bullet either. From what I've seen in reviews, Intel is not so far off with things like Ultra 7 258V. If they caught up to TSCM on the process node, they would probably match Apple too.

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Post by yesnomaybe »

matwood wrote: post #419
porphyra wrote: post #166

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Nice. Lots of people still claim that M1 is super duper fast but now we're at almost twice the performance!

I bought an M1 Max with 64GB of ram on the gamble it would last awhile because future M series would be evolutionary not revolutionary again. It seems like it's paid off since there's never a time it feels slow. I may end up upgrading to the M5 just to go down in screen size because I travel more than I did when I bought the 16" one.

Have an M1 Pro 32GB which recently started feeling slower. VSCode multiple tabs is a problem. Generally the UI feels less snappy.

I've switched now to a desktop Linux, using an 8C/16T AMD Ryzen 7 9700X with 64GB. it's like night and day. but it is software related. Apple just slows everything down with their animations and UI patterns. Probably to nudge people to acquire faster newer hardware.

The change to Linux is a change in lifestyle, but it comes with a lot of freedom and options.

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Post by ako »

olyjohn wrote: post #513
ako wrote: post #348

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It’s even worse: Parallels on MacBooks runs windows better than a dedicated windows laptop…

I doubt that's true except for in your mind. What are you comparing it to? And old-ass Windows laptop?

I moved from a lenovo thinkpad p1 gen 2 core i9 32Gb (2020) to a macbook pro m1 max 32gb (2021), and the experience in parallels beats the experience in the lenovo machine.

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Post by sgarland »

ajross wrote: post #525
sgarland wrote: post #458

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As a sibling comment said, what maintenance? The only problem I’ve ever had with any Mac was a bad keyboard on my M4 MBP, and that showed itself so quickly that even without AppleCare it would have been covered. Between work and personal, I’ve had an Intel Air, 2x Intel Pros, M1 Air, 2x M3 Pros, and an M4 Pro. My wife has an M1 Air. My in-laws have an M3 iMac. My mom has… some version of an Apple Silicon laptop. That…

Oh, come on. Laptops are mobile devices that live in bags and backpacks and they break all the time. I've had more laptop failures than cracked phones, even. You absolutely need an answer for "what happens if my screen gets cracked", just ask any college student. Windows junk is cheaper, it just is. In pre-college education, the answer is often "use any other junky Chromebook from anywhere in the world", which is che…

Maybe you need a better backpack? I’ve had zero cracked screens. I’ve also never cracked my phone screen, though, so there’s that.

I did drop my watch last week, and the second hand fell off, though.

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Post by defraudbah »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #434
defraudbah wrote: post #395

so M4->M5 is as big of a jump as Intel to M1 or M1 to M3?

No the jump from Intel to M1 was a massive one.

I was checking https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks, seems like it is misleading because the jump came from parallel computation and new arch rather than pure compute power

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Post by illusive4080 »

eppsilon wrote: post #353
illusive4080 wrote: post #270

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Re: Microsoft Defender, I’m actually talking about defender on macOS. It is a multi platform product. I hear infosec is pretty happy with it. Me? It uses 100% CPU even when I’m doing nothing. I’m not happy.

Try some of the steps on this page [1]. In particular, enabling real-time protection stats and then adding exclusions for the processes causing the most file scans can help. 1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/mac-supp...

I’m not in control, I’m just a user, but thanks. I have talked to the owners on occasion and plan to keep bringing it up so they can investigate.
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