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0 pointsnottorp1y ago0 comments

Jumping from x86 to arm may be worth it just because of how little power it needs. Perhaps you'd like a laptop where the fan never [*] turns on enough to be audible and with 20 hours battery life?

They fixed the keyboard and the trackpad has been good even in the emoji keyboard models.

Do get one with 32 Gb ram if you can. You never know what you'll want to use it for next year.

[*] Of course, if you compile/run renders etc you may get to hear the fan and it won't last 20 hours.

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ksec1y ago

>They fixed the keyboard and the trackpad has been good even in the emoji keyboard models.

I actually have one with my previous company and they are still not as good. New Scissors has a key travel distance of 1mm instead of 1.5mm, and trackpad is too large that causes false positive compare to zero on my MacBook 2015. Was rather hoping Apple to walk back these two thing by the time I get a new MacBook for myself. But looks like not.

nottorpOP1y ago

Hmm that's probably because you do a direct comparison to the 2015.

I made the mistake of getting an emoji keyboard model in like 2019 and this new M3 Pro felt like I could breathe again :)

layer81y ago

The Lunar Lake laptops have reduced the power efficiency gap by a lot.

nottorpOP1y ago

CPU wise or whole system wise?

You can play some pretty taxing x86 3d games on my M3 pro laptops, in spite of the two layers of emulation. Those Lunar Lake laptops would need a GPU for that wouldn't they?

Have they in the Wintel world figured out why Apple trackpads can actually act like a mouse replacement yet?

layer81y ago

Whole-system wise (they roughly doubled the battery life over the previous generation [0]), and the Intel SoCs have reasonably powerful integrated GPUs.

I’m not a laptop user myself and don’t consider even Apple trackpads (I actually own one of their desktop trackpads) anywhere close to a viable mouse replacement, so no further comment on that.

[0] e.g. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/first-intel-lunar-lake...

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7speter1y ago

The Lunar Lake SoC has a few (4 iirc) Battlemage GPU cores.

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ksec1y ago

>They fixed the keyboard and the trackpad has been good even in the emoji keyboard models.

nottorpOP1y ago

Hmm that's probably because you do a direct comparison to the 2015.

I made the mistake of getting an emoji keyboard model in like 2019 and this new M3 Pro felt like I could breathe again :)

layer81y ago

The Lunar Lake laptops have reduced the power efficiency gap by a lot.

nottorpOP1y ago

CPU wise or whole system wise?

You can play some pretty taxing x86 3d games on my M3 pro laptops, in spite of the two layers of emulation. Those Lunar Lake laptops would need a GPU for that wouldn't they?

Have they in the Wintel world figured out why Apple trackpads can actually act like a mouse replacement yet?

layer81y ago

Whole-system wise (they roughly doubled the battery life over the previous generation [0]), and the Intel SoCs have reasonably powerful integrated GPUs.

I’m not a laptop user myself and don’t consider even Apple trackpads (I actually own one of their desktop trackpads) anywhere close to a viable mouse replacement, so no further comment on that.

[0] e.g. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/first-intel-lunar-lake...

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7speter1y ago

The Lunar Lake SoC has a few (4 iirc) Battlemage GPU cores.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse