M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU
Groan. I suppose the smart thing is to just ignore this and let this weird fascination and appraisal of mediocrity echo on its vehement chamber.<p>This is OK. Why is it lauded as impressive? I honestly have no clue. The hardware is good enough to do some normal tasks, right? So why pretend it&#x27;s some kind of beast at doing at heavy computation measured in flops, when it&#x27;s absolutely nothing even remotely impressive? If it&#x27;s compute power in tflops is about half that of the Jackson tx2, which is also just cool because its a tiny computer... What&#x27;s going on here? Is it a sunken cost fallacy thing? I get that the m1 hardware is pretty good for the battery life and the portability. If there is such a fanfare over this kind of mediocre performance... It leaves me confused. If its top end performance that is important, then, surely the hardware is pretty bad for the price, and even ignoring the price, its far down the list. So, what&#x27;s going on here? Why are people this excited over something like this, if not to justify a purchase that is highly questionable?