Heh, I recall seeing many posts arguing against benchmarks when all Macs equipped with an M2/8GB/256GB SSD scored much, much lower than the M1/8GB/256GB SSD. People said the synthetic benchmarks were not representative of real world use and you'd never notice the difference. 'Twas a battle of the optimists, pessimists, and realists. In reality, 'twas just Apple cutting costs in their newer product.
rewmie|2 years ago
It's one thing to argue that some real-world data might not be representative all on itself.
It's an entirely different thing to present no proof at all, and just claim "trust me, bro" on marketing brochures.