Intel Launches 'PC vs. M1/Mac' Comparison

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3 pointszeus_hammer3 comments

There's a lot here that's more than the usual "stretching" of the truth.

I know that marketing spin is nothing new in the tech industry, but this comes off as desperate and embarrassing.

If you scan down to the footnotes, they at least document the configurations and most of software they measured.

Is there are specific item you feel is more than the usual stretching?

Otherwise, it seems to me to be at most the usual cherry picking to showcase specific strengths and use cases.

Yes, clearly documenting the configurations is an execllent step in transparency. Including price in those would have been nice, but that's asking a lot.

"More than the usual stretching" applies to the "touch bar only," and "limited" vs "unlimited" creation applications, etc. The Air has no touch bar but performs just about the same as the MacBook Pro - yet they lump it all under "Mac M1." And there are some great content applications that don't run on non-Apple hardware at all, and perform better on the M1 Macs than the Intel ones. Maybe that's just the usual stretching, but it's pretty inaccurate.

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