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dmitrygryesterday at 2:24 PM1 replyview on HN

> Laptops are increasingly just clients for someone else's compute

Are you kidding? Apple's mobile chips are now delivering perf that AMD & intel desktop never could or did.


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aleph_minus_oneyesterday at 4:45 PM

> Apple's mobile chips are now delivering perf that AMD & intel desktop never could or did.

Most applications don't make aggressive use of the SIMD instructions that modern x86 chips offer, thus you get this impression. :-(

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