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		eng2prog on Nov 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? They could at significant expense. But why would they? The users don't buy for performance.

vb6sp6 on Nov 30, 2020 [–]

Basically every laptop from here on out is going to be benchmarked against these devices.

And battery life seems to be the sleeper performance metric here. Every review is going to be "you could get 6+ more hours if you just bought the macbook"

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