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What are you running for a PC? AMD, Intel, Mac?

559 sats \ 14 comments \ @DesertDave 15 Dec tech

According to this video, AMD is coming up fast with coit sales. I am curious what you all are running for you daily driver PC?

Intel40.6%

AMD34.4%

M Series Mac15.6%

I only compute on my cell phone6.3%

Other, comment below 👇3.1%

32 votes \ poll ended

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53 sats \ 2 replies \ @ama 15 Dec

AMD, of course, on servers, desktops, and laptops.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 16 Dec

I have been an AMD fanboy since my 400 mhz K6-2 processor that I bought with my first paycheck.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 16 Dec

I used AMD CPUs in the past - 286, 386, K6, Athlon, but now Intel.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @astro_penguin 16 Dec

I've got a lot of Intel machines because of how easy they are to find on the used market. Most of my recent computers, including my daily driver workstation and laptop, are AMD though.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @godlikeXi 16 Dec

Everything actually. AMD based gaming PC with nVidia graphics. 2 Macs. A few Windows laptops. iPad. iPhone. A few Linux boxes. You name it. Don’t have any Android or ChromeOS devices.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 16 Dec

With so many devices I am surprised you have no android. I don't see anything wrong with apple phones, I am just so used to my android. And I like running custom degoogled android for privacy. I also like having an SD card and headphone jack, rare nowadays. My phone is like 5 years old and I still love it. What do you prefer about iphones?

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @doubleplusgood23 16 Dec

I have a Mac Studio with an M2 Max as my main desktop and a 5950x as my server CPU.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @DEADBEEF 16 Dec

Intel, but it is 12 years old. My Plex server is newer and running AMD. When I build a new PC next year I will probably go with AMD.

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 16 Dec

I run iMacs with OS9.1, one with the first OS10 and OS9.2, one PC with Intel and three PCs with AMD, a Raspberry Pi with ARM and three laptops with Intel inside. Of course, these machines are from about ‘98 onward, since I have not yet thrown away any machines. I also have one each of 500, 1000 and 3000 Amiga machines. My main machine is a AMD with Linux and most of the other Desktops have Linux on them. I am an AMD user on the machines I use most. Oh, I also have three stupid little iPads, I hate them, but use them.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 16 Dec

Wow. You for a nice spectrum of hardware. It's cool you are still making use of older machines.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 16 Dec

Yeah, I have certain graphics programs on the old iMacs that I don’t want to part with. The Amigas do great on graphics and putting in credits and such for films. The PCs were my workhorses and I used the laptops for when I had to go mobile. I never threw them away because there was always something I liked on them.

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @oklar 16 Dec

Sorta confused when I listen to these reviews, they seem to launch into it from the angle of a gamer. Still feel I don't know what it is that makes Ryzen win over Intel.

I'm torn between AMD and M series for which seems to be better for my needs (audio DAW, video rendering, compiling software.)

Mostly I find M1 chip is efficient (guess now a 2021 M1 is pretty old) and has never struggled with the modest tasks I throw at it.

Have AMD 6900HX/680M on my daily driver, and I push that a bit more. Seems to use more power and is a bit louder when busy, but amazes me that it can do a lot for the price point.

If macs had upgradable disks and memory, I'd consider a new M series, but don't like that prospect.

In fairness I've not even tried anything more powerful than an N200 Intel, which is pretty good with low power consumption. Maybe someone else can pitch in how i3, i5, i7, i9 run. Didn't some Intel series have some issues?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 16 Dec

I love my m1 macbook air. I am not using it for anything super heavy but it's very fast for just toks of chrome tabs and the battery lasts forever even 3 or 4 years later.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @oklar 16 Dec

I voted for AMD, mostly because it was my surprise that a ~400US it does so much. Was expected some issues with a smaller brand nuc from HK. Minisforum is the brand, would recommend. Maybe the M1 seems to do much better for specific tasks like querying a local LLM. But I have rarely used that.

I'd say for SB computer, rasPi/ARM chips are not bad. Maybe not as cheap as they used to be, and now that there are so many more powerful competitors at the same price. But I just admire the form factor. They still make decent mini servers, lite desktops.