alt Hacker NewsI have a MacBook M1 and I recently had to downgrade from Tahoe to Sequoia. Why? First of all they force you to download 7 GB of AI training when you’re not even using their AI. And secondly on Tahoe just watching a video with nothing else running off-line my MacBook was asking for 7 W of power. On Sequoia that drops down to 2 W maybe three.
It’s sad to think they think of themselves as an environmental company, I don’t know if they do, but this update to Sequoia literally doubled the amount of M1 max that are running on the planet in terms of power use.
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odo1242 • today at 2:12 AM
They don’t force you to download Apple Intelligence, disabling it deletes the model files
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Thanks for the honest review. I’m still on Sonoma and will be holding out until the machine dies.
It’s telling the software cycle is a scam, when new major software versions slow perfectly fine machines with zero value added features.