Comment on Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow
artyom@piefed.social 3 days agoAgain, it depends on the workload. There are endless comparisons between high end desktops and comparably-priced Mac desktops, and while the PC is often more powerful, that’s not always the case , and the Mac does it while being much quieter, and not turning the room it’s in into a sauna.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Yes as it turns out when your workload is 99999 idle applications, a larger number cores helps more than single core performance. SOCs don’t change that. They just reduce power and space usage at the expense of cost.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
It’s nothing to do with idle applications, you should really looke more into this because what you’re saying is simply misinformed.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Can you give me an example? The video you linked has a timestamp to something about video encoding.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
The Mac is comparable in photo and video editing a dominates in LLM generation.