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Intel Says New Core i9 Processor for Laptops is Faster Than Apple's M1 Max Chip
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In Jim Carrey's words: Where are my manners... i9... meet M2
It may not *need* 115 watts to perform well. We will have to wait and see if lower wattage provides good performance vs the M1.
Of course, what Intel REALLY says in-between the lines is “We needed 14 cores to beat Apple’s 10 but please ignore that. Write your stories as if all things are equal.”
Does anyone else find it interesting that Intel focused on their high performance mobile offerings first? Those usually lag 8-12 months after their desktop solutions (forcing laptop vendors to use desktop parts for a number of months).
Does anyone else find it interesting that Intel focused on their high performance mobile offerings first? Those usually lag 8-12 months after their desktop solutions (forcing laptop vendors to use desktop parts for a number of months).
based on the graph it ranges from 30W to 75W. M2 will crush it.
Intel announcement avoided mentioning anything about battery life at all. 
You’re not supposed to ask that.
As someone deep in the world of chips and lithography this is pure lies.
Intel's chips run hot and hungry, their power consumption is huge and their efficiency cores are bizarre as they are neither efficient nor fast. I'm surprised they don't get sued for his. I'm all for competition and as a TSMC, Apple, Nvidia and AMD stockholder (not Intel) I want to see all parties at their best. But Intel's 10nm process is still a failure and these chips are not a good buy. Zen 4 is going to absolutely cream them later this year, even Zen 3D will likely be toe to toe.
Semiaccurate tearing into the train wreck that is Intel.
semiaccurate.com
Intel's chips run hot and hungry, their power consumption is huge and their efficiency cores are bizarre as they are neither efficient nor fast. I'm surprised they don't get sued for his. I'm all for competition and as a TSMC, Apple, Nvidia and AMD stockholder (not Intel) I want to see all parties at their best. But Intel's 10nm process is still a failure and these chips are not a good buy. Zen 4 is going to absolutely cream them later this year, even Zen 3D will likely be toe to toe.
Semiaccurate tearing into the train wreck that is Intel.
Intel’s Alder Lake is needless complexity
Intel’s drawn out drip feed of Alder Lake details ends today with a whimper not a bang.
semiaccurate.com
Most big PC makers released their laptop lines today for the spring which s usual for their industry.
does intel even make chips for those mobile devices anymore?
IIS? SQL Server? Access? FoxPro? Orca? ADSI? GPEdit?
For the most part Parallels does the job just fine if you pay for the license. My only reservation on that is anything graphics intensive, and I know given the multitude of apps I have running in a day, there's a bit of a compromise not running native.
While I think it's unlikely, it would crack me up to no end if Intel ends up re-taking the power/performance lead over Apple at some point in the next few years. Just to enjoy seeing all the Apple fanboys scratching their heads
As someone deep in the world of chips and lithography this is pure lies.
Intel's chips run hot and hungry, their power consumption is huge and their efficiency cores are bizarre as they are neither efficient nor fast. I'm surprised they don't get sued for his. I'm all for competition and as a TSMC, Apple, Nvidia and AMD stockholder (not Intel) I want to see all parties at their best. But Intel's 10nm process is still a failure and these chips are not a good buy. Zen 4 is going to absolutely cream them later this year, even Zen 3D will likely be toe to toe.
Semiaccurate tearing into the train wreck that is Intel.
Intel’s Alder Lake is needless complexity
Intel’s drawn out drip feed of Alder Lake details ends today with a whimper not a bang.
I suspect the graphs are niche or vague enough that they can’t be sued.
But, yes, Intel’s stopgap approach has been to just power their way through until they can figure out an efficiency story. Not only is it very power hungry, you’ll need super aggressive cooling.
Is "Competition is good" the new "Safari is snappier" ?
Also, does this chart take thermal throttling into account at all?
Also, does this chart take thermal throttling into account at all?
Apple said it was up to Microsoft Windows on ARM to allow bootcamp again.
I managed to port my work-essential windows apps to my M1 iMac with CrossOver. I'm now a very happy camper
Yup — the fact they added virtualization support but didn’t, say, add a Windows-compatible x86 translation layer, means they’re OK with having Windows run on Macs, but it isn’t a key requirement at this point.
There’s a rumor that Windows-on-ARM is exclusive to Qualcomm for the moment, and when that expires, MS could release an ARM Windows that’s Mac compatible (and MS does have an x86 translation layer on Windows, even if it’s not as good as Rosetta 2).
Healthcare. We use MS Office extensively. Every possible MS Office app we use works just fine on Macs. Ten years ago, the sector had some proprietary Windows only software but those have largely been replaced with cloud based solutions, of which we use several. I'm the only person in the company that uses *any* Windows only software (payroll software) and I run it in a virtual machine. We've been using Windows computers (Surface Books) for everyone else but have now started transitioning to Macs because of how frustrating maintaining them has become and Microsoft's pricing and specification choices for their own laptops has made us rethink our lineup.
Yes. Apple surely developed the M-chips, because the competition was/is so fierce. ?
the REAL story will come out when there are benchmarks with say a Dell XPS15 (or pick any other new laptop) and the MBP, including performance and battery life ...
I'm happy to see Intel has a competitive product finally, competition is a good thing
I'm happy to see Intel has a competitive product finally, competition is a good thing
Forgot to mention Apple's first attempt at a desktop class processor.
Told you Intel would catch up. And BLOW BY.
Everybody HERE said INTEL was DEAD INTEL was History.
Meanwhile ALL MACS. weather MacBook Pro, iMac , Mac mini are all stuck on the M1 chip for the next 18 months.
INTEL has plenty of shrinking of their CPU size yet. While APPLE is approaching 3NM. and then probably will struggle
Everybody HERE said INTEL was DEAD INTEL was History.
Meanwhile ALL MACS. weather MacBook Pro, iMac , Mac mini are all stuck on the M1 chip for the next 18 months.
INTEL has plenty of shrinking of their CPU size yet. While APPLE is approaching 3NM. and then probably will struggle
Power hungry newer chip slightly faster than power efficient older chip. Nice.
LOL Intel, you’re drunk. On a MOBILE application, you want to be on the lower power requirement, not showing off how faster you are at the higher power draw.
But anyway, Intel is higher simply because of Intel having more cores. We don’t know the single core performance per watt. This is where Apple has been killing it on the mobile space.
Add on ML and the hardware encoder/decoder engine. The focus will be on these, and Apple is betting early. Apple knows what they’re doing, while Intel is still chasing general purpose processing.
But anyway, Intel is higher simply because of Intel having more cores. We don’t know the single core performance per watt. This is where Apple has been killing it on the mobile space.
Add on ML and the hardware encoder/decoder engine. The focus will be on these, and Apple is betting early. Apple knows what they’re doing, while Intel is still chasing general purpose processing.