Microsoft is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.
  • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    29 days ago

    Some of the same hardware, yes.

    But also - the CPU/GPU in the iPhones are insane.

    Compared against a bunch of laptops in the price class from dell, HP, etc and the single-core performance is like 50% higher on the iPhone CPU in the macbook neo.

    I can’t wait for more ARM CPUs that hit these specs for a reasonable price.

      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        29 days ago

        As someone who was very excited about ARM several years ago and still is using ARM for half of my homelab equipment, it’s unfortunately rapidly become irrelevant. x86 CPUs can now run as efficiently at the same TDP while still beating it in performance with all the benefits of x86. Unless something unforeseen changes, I probably won’t be buying any more ARM machines for homelab/server use. Still using what I already own, of course.

        RISC-V seems cool though, but not sure that it will be more attractive than x86.

      • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        29 days ago

        This seems nonsensical to me. It’s physically impossible for ARM competitors to match the performance of Apple ARM?

        Not to mention that we’re talking about their lowest-specced CPU here and there are far more powerful ones.

    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      511·
      29 days ago

      Those single core performance numbers are entirely benchmaxxed and don’t reflect real world performance or reality at all

      EDIT: downvoters in denial. They get better synthetic Geekbench numbers compared to some of the latest desktop x86 processors (“beats” 7950X and “meets” 9950X), but get absolutely smoked by those same processors in real use. Maybe your only use of a computer is running Geekbench idk.