Definitely a lot of marketing going on here. And it's hilarious that you can buy a $700 Mac Mini to drive a $7000 Pro Display XDR. But it's been a long time since there was anything interesting happening in the desktop CPU market. If they can deliver on their performance and battery life claims, it really does represent a huge change in the laptop space.
That's fairly interesting, it's true. (Also, hooray for AMD—I'll always have a soft spot for them.) But assuming that Apple's graphs represent anything approaching reality, they're showing much bigger year-over-year gains than we've seen in a long time. I don't know how Apple is going to scale these processors up—surely they can't keep putting ALL the memory on the SOC; 16GB is one thing, but what if you want 64GB or 512GB or 12TB like on the Mac Pro?—but I guess that's what I mean by *interesting*. There's a lot of interesting, uncharted territory here.
I'm sure Intel was making a lot of money supplying chips to Apple, and now AMD is eating Intel's lunch in various categories—can they survive this?
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Definitely a lot of marketing going on here. And it's hilarious that you can buy a $700 Mac Mini to drive a $7000 Pro Display XDR. But it's been a long time since there was anything interesting happening in the desktop CPU market. If they can deliver on their performance and battery life claims, it really does represent a huge change in the laptop space.
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Are you kidding? AMD just released Ryzen 5000 and it's destroying Intel. That's pretty interesting.
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That's fairly interesting, it's true. (Also, hooray for AMD—I'll always have a soft spot for them.) But assuming that Apple's graphs represent anything approaching reality, they're showing much bigger year-over-year gains than we've seen in a long time. I don't know how Apple is going to scale these processors up—surely they can't keep putting ALL the memory on the SOC; 16GB is one thing, but what if you want 64GB or 512GB or 12TB like on the Mac Pro?—but I guess that's what I mean by *interesting*. There's a lot of interesting, uncharted territory here.
I'm sure Intel was making a lot of money supplying chips to Apple, and now AMD is eating Intel's lunch in various categories—can they survive this?
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1.5TB of RAM like the Mac pro—I was thinking about the number of slots (12) when I typed that.