This is how badly Intel screwed itself over

[igor_kavinski]

Instead of spying, if the OS instead kept track of the computing needs of the various processes and how loaded each core was, it could automatically schedule the most compute intensive threads to the most powerful and most under-utilized cores first. Intel Thread Director also makes things unnecessarily complicated because it prefers the Lion Cove cores for most foreground active tasks while hinting to the Windows scheduler to mostly run background tasks on the Skymonts, leading to them just sitting around with a bunch of non-critical processes during gaming.

 

[Brian_B]

My M1 Macbook Air actually beats my hot as heck and power hungry 12700K in the overclock.net Excel benchmark but I mainly use it for watching movies. Can't get used to the MacOS way of doing things. If Apple ever decides to kill the x86 market, they just need to strike a deal with Microsoft, paying them royalties for Windows ARM copies and then people start switching in droves. A fanless, noise-free computing experience is just super special and especially when it offers desktop level performance. Only Windows ARM availability/compatibility and pricing are the main hindrance to that dream.

I have to say, as a long time Mac OS user myself - I don't think you are wrong.

MacOS isn't exactly trending in a great direction. Most of the time I use my Macbook - it's either Excel and email, and increasingly just CLI unix tools.

The ARM macbooks are excellent hardware, but MacOS (well, Apple software in general) is just going in the wrong direction.

(that said, I wouldn't exactly say Windows is any better from a user experience, it just has the benefit of compatibility with 98% of software available)

 

[igor_kavinski]

but MacOS (well, Apple software in general) is just going in the wrong direction.

MacOS has some crazy behavior. I have to be ABSOLUTELY sure to eject a removable device otherwise next time I plug in, it won't get mounted. First few times this happened, I couldn't understand why. Then I looked in the Mac Task Manager and saw that it was running fsck on it. Since my USB flash drive has thousands of files, it takes at least five minutes for it to finish. And during that time, there is zero indication that the drive is being scanned. A simple notification like Windows displays "This drive was not safely removed. Do you want to scan it? Yes/No" would seem like the logical thing to do but Mac engineers think it's more logical to force the user to be scared of unsafely unplugging a removable device.