"After spending time on Apple’s M1/M2 Macs (coming from a large x86_64 desktop), going back to x86_64 feels like a regression, both in performance and battery life. Unfortunately, there’s currently no FreeBSD-supported (or even Linux, as far as I can tell) ARM64 laptop that truly rivals Apple Silicon. I really hope Framework or someone else changes that in the coming years."
I thought it was now well established that it's not neccessarily ARM vs x86, but more "All the optimization of MacOS" vs "Bloated Windows" and "Sub-optimal (hardware control wise) Linux"
No you're not wrong, if you're comparing ARM CPUs on Linux to one specific Intel CPU, the Lunar Lake V ones. Then yeah you're not wrong, it's very much a case of optimisation for CPUs like the Snapdragon X Elite CPUs in comparison.
But if you widened the scope a bit more, then I think there's plenty of more energy hungry x86_64 CPUs compared to ARM.
You should be comparing to AMD, at that. There's hope for the upcoming Intel chips - but anything current isn't competitive. Furthermore, M* is good for a specific form-factor, but don't for a second suggest that 4 P-Cores will outdo the 16 hyper threaded cores on a 9950x
The only like for like comparison you can do is comparing an M1 MacBook to one of its Intel Mac contemporaries (which were present day Intel systems at the time).
I thought it was now well established that it's not neccessarily ARM vs x86, but more "All the optimization of MacOS" vs "Bloated Windows" and "Sub-optimal (hardware control wise) Linux"
Am I wrong?