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"My recommendation? If your work doesn’t involve long-running tasks that are CPU- and GPU-intensive (such as Premiere) then the new MacBook Pro should provide a considerable increase in performance."

So it's perfectly fine as long as you don't use it for Pro-grade workloads. Seems about right.

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so compiling software is not a Pro-grade workload? I would say it does not fit _all_ Pro-grade workloads.

Compiling is definitely CPU intensive

But it’s usually not GPU intensive.

The implication is that taxing BOTH the CPU and the GPU will cause performance issues. Something like compiling, which is usually just CPU intensive bursts, should see a performance improvement.

This waterproof coat is fine, as long as you don't go out in continuous rainfall.

this information is still useful for someone else, like developers who doesn't care much about GPU workload

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