[If you're a laptop user, scroll down the thread for laptop Rust compile times, M3 Pro looks great]
You're misguided.
Apple has excellent Notebook CPUs. Apple has great IPC.
But AMD and Intel have easily faster CPUs.
https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=...
Blender Benchmark
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (16 core) 560.8
Apple M2 Ultra (24 cores) 501.82
Apple M3 Max (12 cores) 408.27
Apple M3 Pro 226.46
Apple M3 160.58
It depends on what you're doing.
I'm a software developer using a compiler that 100%s all cores. I like fast multicore.
Apple Mac Pro, 64gb, M2 Ultra, $7000
Apple Mac mini, 32gb, M2 Pro, 2TB SSD, $2600
[Edit2] Compare to: 7950x is $500 and a very fast SSD is $400, fast 64gb is $200, very good board is $400 so I get a very fast dev machine for ~$1700 (0,329 p/$ vs. mini 0,077 p/$)
[Edit] Made a c&p mistake, the mini has no ultra.
You're misguided.
Apple has excellent Notebook CPUs. Apple has great IPC. But AMD and Intel have easily faster CPUs.
https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query/?compute_type=...
Blender Benchmark
It depends on what you're doing.I'm a software developer using a compiler that 100%s all cores. I like fast multicore.
[Edit2] Compare to: 7950x is $500 and a very fast SSD is $400, fast 64gb is $200, very good board is $400 so I get a very fast dev machine for ~$1700 (0,329 p/$ vs. mini 0,077 p/$)[Edit] Made a c&p mistake, the mini has no ultra.