I actually hope somebody is challenged enough by this to really push for competition as this level of performance asymmetry will ultimately result in further pricing asymmetry as competition breaks down.
I actually hope somebody is challenged enough by this to really push for competition as this level of performance asymmetry will ultimately result in further pricing asymmetry as competition breaks down.
Only the M1 Air is truly fanless, the Pros do have fans, they're just silent most of the time.
The Lenovo X13s reportedly offers even more battery life at around 70% the multicore performance(based on demo device score) and is fanless as well.
Still doesn't beat the M1, but comparing the TDPs of M1 and Qualcomm's 8cx gen 3 in the X13s, it appears that it's TSMC's 5nm node that's doing all the magic.
Personally I'm happy that we're getting proper fanless laptops now - I hate moving parts in mobile devices, because they tend to fail first.
But at around 60% of single core performance. That is basically half the speed.
It is even more astounding when you look at the utter shitshow that Google's Tensor has been!