I don't know. I felt this way when switching from Intel laptop to Apple M1. I am still using it today and I prefer it over desktop PC.

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Aurornis 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I also went from an Intel MacBook Pro to an M1 and appreciated it, but that leap was exaggerated by how bad the last few generations of Intel MacBook Pros were.

The Apple Silicon chassis was allowed to finally house an appropriate cooling solution, too. They are much quieter than the same Intel laptops when dissipating the same power levels.

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embedding-shape 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you ever used proper desktop computers? I suppose such a move would feel significant if you've mostly been using laptops.

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philistine 6 hours ago | parent [-]

But that's the thing; a laptop is fundamentally different. Of course if there's the equivalent of a thermopump under my desk I'm going to get crazy performance. The magic was that Apple brought the uncompromised experience to a laptop.

	▲	Aurornis 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> The magic was that Apple brought the uncompromised experience to a laptop. Apple’s power efficiency was a great bump forward, but the performance claims were a little exaggerated. I love my Apple Silicon devices but I still switch over to a desktop for GPU work because it’s so much faster, for example. Apple had that famously misleading chart where they showed their M1 GPU keeping pace with a flagship nVidia card that misled everyone at launch. In practice they’re not even close to flagship desktop accelerators, unfortunately. They have excellent idle power consumption though. Great for a laptop.