MacBook Pro M4 benchmark "results are outrageous"

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Label me a dour old cynic, but if some product unaccountably escapes early release to receive wildly good reviews then any resulting corporate outrage over that happenstance just might not be entirely genuine [ugly nerd smirk emoji]

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I guess there are probably a fair number of people who use small, portable laptops for heavy-duty computing, and a 37% increase in performance might make a real difference for some types of work, but having experienced the height of the “Moore’s Law” of computer improvements in the 80’s, 90’s and aughts, a 37% improvement for the next generation of a computer model doesn’t seem especially newsworthy to me. Am I missing something?

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I thought the CPU improvements were all about efficiency and lower power use/heat generation these days, as “MOAR MIPS” seems to come from the GPU now?

I was surprised to learn my Windows game machine is still fairly current, so I really do not know much.

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Moore’s Law is pretty well over, so really any significant increase in performance due to changes in architecture is notable.

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I personally doubt that. Apple is notorious as far as delivering their own message on their products, and while these leaked tests are unlikely to influence the vast bulk of consumers compared to the official numbers, I’d imagine that Apple will need to adjust its own messaging (eg not over inflate). I’m not sure what they have to gain to need to conspire early glowing reviews, anyways. Macs are doing well and Apple silicon has been a series of wins and returns.

Maybe the performance boost is significant.

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I had a look at a synthetic benchmark system and the new M4 CPU’s are good but not noticeably better than other similar CPU’s. Obviously there are not enough measurements to really know at this point.
The MacOS seems to be better at using the mix of performance and efficiency cores than Windows is which also makes a difference.

Compare to Snapdragon CPU’s and other CPU’s for laptops.

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Likewise. I’ll never again see the equal of the jump from my first XT system I’d upgraded with a slightly faster V20 clone of the 4.77 MHz 8088 chip. I skipped from that past the 286 gen, and went into a honking fast 20 MHz 32-bit 386!

I had to dig deep, deep into FractInt to find its limits. And there was no Windows GUI to eat up that speed either.

Nothing has ever felt fast since then.

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