But real world software is not the same as benchmarks and there's other - operations going on in between CPU activity - especially memory operations which benchmarks don't tend to test very well. And on a benchmark, my laptop's CPU draws a lot of power (it could theoretically drain the battery in minutes). On a benchmark, Intel's servers look like they're a bit faster than my laptop. And it's faster than a best-money-can-buy x86 server. And surely a fair chunk of that goes to the LCD, not to mention web browser, IDE, etc. If you do the math, nearly 20h battery life means my laptop draws well under 3 watts in total. Oh, and you can buy this laptop for about what it costs to rent the server for two weeks. I write server side software and it's pretty annoying when I deploy software on an intel server, and it runs slow compared to the laptop - which is fanless and runs for almost 20 hours off a 50Wh battery. Having used Apple's hardware for a while now, I disagree.
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