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Are the New Macbook Pros better than Windows PCs?

Posted on April 11, 2023April 12, 2023 by Michael Molenda

I left two comments today that I hope they address: My older, slower RTX 3060 laptop got an Open CL score of 81694 in Geekbench 6. So, I am not sure why this one is so much slower. You are showing in the capture I am looking at OpenCL vs Metal. So, that is wrong….

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Switching to Apple Silicon Part II: The Benchmarks (Supplemental)

Posted on April 11, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

So, I decided to benchmark my laptop as well because it has nVidia RTX mobile graphics but has a much weaker 10th Gen Core i5 CPU. I am just going to put the graphs up. I think you can see that the RTX mobile graphics has higher computational scores than my desktop AMD GPU and…

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Switching to Apple Silicon Part II: The Benchmarks

Posted on April 8, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

I came from an 27″ Intel Core i9-9900k. The 9900k in the iMac was gimped to begin with due to lack of appropriate thermal solution. However, it was a fast chip. Compared to other iMacs, at least. Compare an iMac to a PC built around a 9900k and there is a big difference. So, Apple…

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Switching to Apple Silicon Part I: The Setup

Posted on April 2, 2023June 28, 2023 by Michael Molenda

Hi my dear readers. I am going to do a two part series on my move to Apple Silicon. I have resisted to this point but the falling resale values of Intel Macs has made me re-think my strategy with Apple Macs going forward. I decided to go with a Mac mini setup because I…

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