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lkrupp said:

This is hilariously funny. When the Samsung/Android fanboys were basking in the benchmark superiority of their devices they were fine. Now that they have been caught or have fallen behind they simply can’t accept reality. What to do? What to do? Start a disinformation campaign of course and accuse Apple of skullduggery when Samsung did the exact thing they now accuse Apple of. I guess once a liar always a liar.

Wait for the usual suspects to come and explain how this is a tempest in a teapot and how Samsung is truly unbeatable no matter what benchmarks say. And you know who I mean.

dewme said:

A whole lot of silliness going on here. Who cares what you call anything? The only thing that matters is what it does for the people who use them. There used to be a market for suitcase style computers like the early Compaq, Osborne, and KayPro luggable computers that were sold as “portables.” Anything with a handle was considered portable even if it weighed 25 pounds. I once had to use a “portable” plc programming workstation that was based on the IBM PC AT standard. It was so heavy the manufacturer had to reclassify the handle as a screen positioning prop because it was unsafe to use the handle as a handle. People who recognized the value of these computers for the use cases that they filled bought ‘them in droves. 

For some strange reason, humans are hard wired to view everything in life as a zero sum game. This is silly, narrow minded, and missing the point for anything that’s not a competition or game. 

Apple is not going to lose significant customers to the PC makers by virtue of PC makers having a faster processor than Apple for specific applications that are already dominated by PC based machines running a PC operating system. 

Similarly, diehard PC/Windows buyers aren’t going to switch over to Apple in significant numbers based on the benefits that Apple provides with Apple Silicon running macOS. 

The operating systems and the applications that are optimized for those operating systems have a hell of a lot more sway over buying behaviors than do benchmarks or narrow slices of very domain specific applications. No matter what platform I’ve ever used, the computer always spends a heck of a lot more time waiting on me than I spend waiting on the computer. But if you get paid to run benchmarks the situation may be reversed. 

cfoxy17 said:

"Likewise, both machines get quite warm when pushed hard, but the MSI will practically heat the entire room during such tasks, while the M2 Max MBP doesn't.", Wrong, this is a baseless comment trying to rip on msi. It's cooling systems are MUCH more sophisticated that Apple's.

And literally the only app that Apple's M2 Max chip beats Intel's 13980HX is Blender. Intel wipes the floor with apple in every other comparison.

This is such a biased article that only paints Apple in all the best ways possible.

DuhSesame said:

If you don’t understand what I mean: Apple can easily build a silicon that’s faster than x86 Flagships and running at lower power.  So much so it can fit into a laptop.

Instead we’re stuck at a four-year old performance level because whatever reason for Apple.

Rogue01 said:

Considering 95% of people use a laptop while it is plugged in, what is the big deal?  Most people only use it on battery to go attend a meeting and then go back to their desk and plug it back in.