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https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/

https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/singlecore

here are the leaderboards for anyone else who was curious

It's insane to me that the fastest Mac chip is almost a fifth faster than the fastest Intel chip for a fraction of the power budget.

The moment AAA gaming becomes possible on macOS, the floodgates open and windows is dead

Not going to happen, Linux already won, doesn’t look like it but you’ll see.

Linux is actually exciting contrary to Apple as a company, their hardware, their prices and macOS in general.

And I’m saying this as a Windows user too, I will NEVER buy a Mac but I’ve used Linux on and off for 30+ years.

For the past 5-10 years Linux has been the only excitement I’ve had personally.

Why will you never buy a Mac even if they are making the best hardware available? Money or ideology?

Lock-in: ownership over user choice and data

I think it's neither, it all comes down to peace of mind and that's the true future of technology.

In the past it was more of a race of companies trying to get "there" first, not anymore, we live in an interesting age where people feel constantly controlled and everyone is exhausted about tech in general.

Linux gives you that middle finger peace of mind like saying "I will never be controlled anymore and ever again" ..funny there is a big Warez article on the HN homepage at the same time of this discussion, that's exactly what it feels like to finally come out on the other side legally.

People took decades to finally being liberated from Windows and Microsoft and many like me will never be controlled that way again and while I respect Apple more than Microsoft for a lot of things in the end it's just another corporation that wants to greedily take your life energy and precious time and enslave you again.

They are creating the best hardware at the worst possible time, but it's good for competition so it's all good.

I'll gladly sell my soul first thing every morning in exchange for a laptop that lasts longer than two hours on battery, wifi/audio/webcam work after waking from sleep, and not needing to learn a complexity fractal of CLI commands to do basic things.

They are called Chromebooks. It can sometimes be difficult for some people to find that toggle switch that enables Debian, but I can assure you, no arcane CLI commands are involved.

EDIT: Any Chromebook using a Panther Lake chip, or an upcoming Googlebook ARM, can get you there.

Money AND ideology - I've never owned any apple product, and never will

Personally it's the software which doesn't make me buy one. The hardware really is one of the best you can buy but using the software makes me lose my hair.

Since it doesn't run the software I need, why would I buy it? Unthinking fanboi-ism or simple stupidity?

Linux sits at <3% users or so.

Not even Microsoft believes that. Where could you possibly find a misrepresentation like that?

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

~10% is a good guess. AI tools run much better on Ubuntu/Fedora out of the box, and that is not exactly a secret either.

> Where could you possibly find a misrepresentation like that?

On the stats website you linked at any time in the last 20 years with the exception of the two most recent months. To be explicit all of the data points are closer to 3% than 10% except July and August 2026.

I don’t think it’s that surprising that the GP has a misrepresentation of Linux desktop deployments given that the uptick is recent.

AI tools are the killer app driving Desktop Linux. Is anyone else still confused about this? It's been a few minutes since 2023.

This doesn’t address or even acknowledge a single thing I said.

The Steam Survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

This includes SteamOS.

Linux has been at 100% for years, don't get confused about mouse and keyboard.

AAA games already exist on Mac, and actually quite a few of them.

And Windows is not remotely dead yet. Gamers are not selling their PCs and getting Macs.

Eh, they always get ~5 year old stuff like Control and Cyberpunk

Not even support for the latest Diablo or Overwatch and absolutely no GTA 6 for example

That's not what the original comment was asking about. Don't complain about my corrections.

If someone wants to add qualifiers, they should do that and make it clear.

Wonder what will be first, the year of Linux desktop or the year of Apple AAA gaming ;P

Been hearing both for the same time.

Apple needs better GPUs for "AAA gaming on macOS". My M2 Max is pretty awful at games that run fine on a desktop GPU. An M(whatever) Ultra to play games seems like a debatable value proposition.

Woah the A19 Pro is 5th, that’s bonkers! It’s used in an iPhone and its power consumption is lower than chips intended for desktops.

A20 Pro would have been number 1 if it was included in that chart.

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