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Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And it’s really responsive even on battery. It’s actually a little bad because I can have too many windows open and can’t find anything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

MacOS doesn't throttle performance on battery like many Windows power plans do, that's why

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well it can when it needs to. It just doesn't need to much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

MacOS doesn't need to throttle performance because ARM and other RISC architectures are naturally very power efficient

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They didn't do it on x86 either I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well those Intel CPUs used to thermal throttle anyway in their outlandishly inadequate cooling designs so they did not need to throttle power either way. Now they could throttle power but don't have to