<story><title>The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/apple-m1-compiles-linux-30-faster-my-intel-i9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chippiewill</author><text>Ehh. I take the view that Apple has been intentionally sandbagging their laptops for a while to facilitate an ARM transition.&lt;p&gt;Not to say that M1 isn&amp;#x27;t amazing, but I think Apple has been preparing for this for a while and needed to make sure it would succeed even if their ARM CPUs weren&amp;#x27;t quite as groundbreaking as they turned out to be.</text></item><item><author>tedivm</author><text>The 2019 macbook ironically had better heat dissipation than the previous generations, but it&amp;#x27;s still pretty bad.&lt;p&gt;We can blame Apple for using chips that are too intense for their laptops, and we can blame Intel for making garbage chips that can&amp;#x27;t really perform in real world cases while spending a decade not bothering to innovate. Apple at least is moving away from Intel as a result of all of this, and I&amp;#x27;m really impressed with how well the M1 transition has been going.</text></item><item><author>frozenport</author><text>or Apple doing a bad job with the previous generation</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>It’s a problem of intels own making - marketing vastly different capabilities under the same brand in order to segment the market.</text></item><item><author>1_player</author><text>Note: 30% faster than a thermally challenged i9 on a MacBook Pro, not a desktop one. Given the comments on similar threads, I feel this needs to be mentioned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rsynnott</author><text>For _five years_?&lt;p&gt;Or longer, really; while everyone, of course, loves the 2015 MBP, they&amp;#x27;re mostly thinking of the integrated GPU one; the discrete GPU version was pretty thermally challenged. Arguably Apple&amp;#x27;s real problem with the post-2015 ones was that Intel stopped chips with fast integrated GPUs, so Apple put discrete GPUs in all SKUs.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/apple-m1-compiles-linux-30-faster-my-intel-i9</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chippiewill</author><text>Ehh. I take the view that Apple has been intentionally sandbagging their laptops for a while to facilitate an ARM transition.&lt;p&gt;Not to say that M1 isn&amp;#x27;t amazing, but I think Apple has been preparing for this for a while and needed to make sure it would succeed even if their ARM CPUs weren&amp;#x27;t quite as groundbreaking as they turned out to be.</text></item><item><author>tedivm</author><text>The 2019 macbook ironically had better heat dissipation than the previous generations, but it&amp;#x27;s still pretty bad.&lt;p&gt;We can blame Apple for using chips that are too intense for their laptops, and we can blame Intel for making garbage chips that can&amp;#x27;t really perform in real world cases while spending a decade not bothering to innovate. Apple at least is moving away from Intel as a result of all of this, and I&amp;#x27;m really impressed with how well the M1 transition has been going.</text></item><item><author>frozenport</author><text>or Apple doing a bad job with the previous generation</text></item><item><author>Traster</author><text>It’s a problem of intels own making - marketing vastly different capabilities under the same brand in order to segment the market.</text></item><item><author>1_player</author><text>Note: 30% faster than a thermally challenged i9 on a MacBook Pro, not a desktop one. Given the comments on similar threads, I feel this needs to be mentioned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluejekyll</author><text>Are there any benchmarks you can point to that have a similarly spec&amp;#x27;d laptop (ideally similar size &amp;amp; weight too) that would show that Apple is sandbagging?</text></comment>