| ▲ | Aurornis 2 hours ago | |
> Most consumers are using laptops and laptops are not keeping pace with where the frontier is in a singular compute node. How can you say this when Apple is releasing extremely fast M5 MacBook Pros? Or the $600 MacBook Neo that has incredible performance for that price point? Even x86 is getting some interesting options. The Strix Halo platform has become popular with LLM users that the parts are being sold in high numbers for little desktop systems. | ||
| ▲ | embedding-shape an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
They're ultimately laptops, you won't be able to squeeze out the same amount of performance from a laptop compared to a desktop, regardless of the hardware. If you haven't tried out a desktop CPU in a while, I highly recommend you giving it a try if you're used to only using laptops, even when in the same class the difference is obvious. | ||
| ▲ | chmod775 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
They're fast, but they'll never even remotely reach what a mid-range desktop PC with dedicated graphics burning 500W is able to do. A 300W GPU released in 2025 is about 10x M5 perf. The difference is going to be smaller for CPU perf, but also not close. | ||