Comment on Apple quietly released this year's BEST laptop
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
From what I’ve heard, there are AMD laptop chips with better multicore performance, although worse single-core. Other than the spec bump, this is pretty much the same as the M4 laptops.
Basically if you like macOS (and only macOS since Linux will probably take half a decade to show up given the current rate of Asahi Linux support with newer chips) and specifically need more perf for whatever reason (especially for AI), it’s a nice upgrade.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 23 hours ago
These have way better battery life though, right?
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
They have better battery life than most laptops, but it also strongly depends on what configuration you use and what you’re doing. For instance, my M1 Max laptop has never hit its stated battery life and frankly is pretty close to my AMD laptop (when its battery wasn’t half dead). The AMD laptop is admittedly heavier though.
AFAIK they’re about the same as the M4 in terms of battery life. If you look at their marketing, their battery life improvements are based on their Intel and M1 laptops (whose owners they seem to be targeting for upgrades).
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
My M2 MacBook Air has amazing battery life, I’m constantly impressed by it.
arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
I do think the lower-end chips actually have great battery life, but once you start going for the higher performance ones you unsurprisingly sacrifice battery for power.