It's an interesting world we live in where Apple is the choice for performance. For years and years everyone talked about how Macs were underpowered compared to their price tag.
Not really. Apple Silicon has good battery life, but it's performance is actually fairly pathetic compared to last-gen x86 chips. Like, compare the M1 to the Ryzen 7 4800u, a chip that was like 9 months old when Apple Silicon hit shelves. Both processors have competitive single-core and multi-core performance, and the GPUs are even pretty close in terms of performance profile. The real kicker? AMD's chip put up competitive performance on TSMC's 7nm node, whereas Apple was fighting with 5nm.
Honestly, if AMD had access to the same silicon Apple does, there probably wouldn't be any comparison. I'd argue their processes are half a generation ahead of Apple's designs.
So, compare the power efficency. M1 idles at ~6w + 2-5 watts for the display. The 4800u idles ~10w + 2-4 watts for the display. A simple node bump would close the efficiency gap between the two chips, at least on paper.
Unless you’re comparing perf per watt as a curve, idle wattage is largely not representative of real world use. Similarly for peak performance if you’re excluding the wattage or throttling at those levels.
It's impossible to compare either of these CPUs because one is heterogeneous and the other is big.LITTLE. It's still fair to analyze their power consumption as a black-box machine though.
That’s true though from a user perspective, the PpW of the package is more important than the actual core.
Though of course there are other comparison issues like the ANE and video decoders making certain tasks significantly more efficient, so testing the whole package does become much more complex to represent.
Yeah this. I pay for the WHOLE THING to work, not just bits of it, depending on the whim of the QA job someone did at a distro vendor. Been burned too many times.
And now we have the M1, sorry but I don't want to know on the hardware front unless Intel get anywhere near it.
I like to say I go with the best operating system at the time. For most of my career that’s been macOS/X.
There was a time when I felt like what Windows had going on with Windows 7 was much better than what Apple had going on and I spent a few years primarily using a PC.
However, I’ve been back on Mac for years, and I feel like “advertisements in the start menu” indicates that Windows is going down a dark path.
I do have to keep a second PC around to use Windows as a lot of our engineering software is Windows specific, but I do most everything on the Mac.
The theorem would be using iCloud to sync them. If that’s not an option I believe you should be able access the downloads folder when you connect your iPhone to the Mac via Finder. The third option being airdropping the files themselves.
Man Mac iOS and osx are cooked af in workflows. Had a client recently run out of space on phone due to photos. Lol turns out apples sync is all or nothing. She couldn't free up space by telling iPhoto to not sync ancient ass shit, also extra iCloud storage. Can't use it while syncs on as your old phone only has 10gigs of space. Lol complete joke, told her to go rant at the local apple shop about it.
Predatory af and shite from apple. She can't even just plug phone in and strip the photos to a usb or external cus lol iPhoto/iTunes/apparently you should only do stuff how apple wants you to do stuff. Apple products are cooked af.
On and trying to find or free up space on the phone? Ahahhaha good luck, apple happily grouped 30% of the devices storage to "other apple apps" to with zero descriptors or indicators to what they were or how to delete them. Products a joke.
These are all such terrible answers to that question they serve as supporting the comment's implicated critique. I don't mean that your answer is incorrect. You are correct that these are the simplest means provided to accomplish that task.
But the provided means are gross.
You shouldn't need to go out to the internet, consume a cloud service, and come back, just to go from your phone to your laptop, and all of these big service providers shouldn't be making it so that that is the path of least resistance, or even damned near the only possible path.
It's a great example of how the incentives of the companies are opposite to those of the users.
Saying 'workflow' misses the point and seems to almost intentionally miss the point by turning the criticism into a criticismmof something trivial or a mere preference instead of the fundamental wrong that it is.
The internet and the cloud are great and super convenient. But that is a seperate issue from companies steering everyone into actually requiring good internet speed and lots of bandwidth cap, and the consumption of subscription storage space, or worse free storage space where ypu are the product, not because ypu choose to but because no other option is even presented.
The critique was not about some preferred sequence of buttons to click no different from any other sequence. I decline to believe you didn't understand that when you said "workflow".
I tried developing on a PC... For whatever reason, my development setup (probably WSDL) crashes the PC every time it goes to sleep. Tried all kinds of remedies and it never worked.
Got so fed up I deleted windows and run Linux... it's working OK. It's not Mac OS X, but at least it doesn't crash.
Yeah, I'm generally more productive in a macOS-like environment too.
With how diversity and customization are such highly vaunted qualities of Linux desktops, it's disappointing that the most fleshed out DEs are all built around a Win9X-type paradigm, with the only outlier being GNOME which is what one might get if they tried to turn iPadOS into a desktop OS. Where's the DEs inspired by macOS?
