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Right but we keep repeating this cycle. A new M series chip comes, the geekbench leaks and its class leading.

Immediately people “but geEk BeNcH”

And then actual people get their hands on the machines for their real workloads and essentially confirm the geekbench results.

If this was the first time, then fair enough. But it’s a Groundhog Day style sketch comedy at this point with M4.

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I blame it on the PC crowd being unconsciously salty the most prestigious CPU is not available to them. You heard the same stuff when talking about Android performance versus iPhone.

There is a lot to criticize about Apple's silicon design, but they are leading the CPU market in terms of mindshare and attention. All the other chipmakers all feel like they're just trying to follow Apple's lead. It's wild.

I was surprised and disappointed to see that the industry didn’t start prioritizing heat output more after the M1 generation came out. That was absolutely my favorite thing about it, it made my laptop silent and cool.

But anyway, what is it you see to criticize about Apple‘s Apple Silicon design? The way RAM is locked on package so it’s not upgradable, or something else?

I’m kind of surprised, I don’t hear a lot of people suggesting it has a lot to be criticized for.

It was wild to see the still ongoing overclocking Ghz competition, while suddenly one could use a laptop with good performance, no fans, no noise and while using it mobile.

The lack of multiple display support early on. The M2 generation produced much more heat than the M1, but that could be the new Macbook Air. GPU weakness with the bigger chips.

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