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@Androole OLEDs have their own issues from burn-in to off-axis color shift.

They also in the laptop form factor seem to be limited to about 500-600 NITs peak brightness.

@Raist3d Yeah, I wonder when Apple's going to implement hardware ray tracing.

From what I hear, the Metal API certainly looks like it's built for it.

@Raist3d Not to mention the 200 GB/sec memory access speed of the M1 Pro and the 400 GB/sec speed on the M1 Max vs. the 50-80 or so on the best x86 machines.

One thing's for sure - to compete in...

There's a realtime overhead built in to the Wintel architecture no one much talks about.

You format a request and data in main memory, compress it, transmit it over PCIe, receive it into GPU...

@panther fan Look at it from TSMC's point of view.

You've been collaborating with Apple for the better part of a decade. You were hesitant to do so at first because you weren't sure you wanted...

@panther fan Snork.

Apple and TSMC have a very close relationship ... who do you think has been funding the development of all those new nodes with TSMC?

Process nodes aren't something you throw...

@panther fan Last I heard Apple bought up all of TSMC's 3nm capacity - maybe they'll make more if they can get it working.

FYI, TSMC hasn't even got 3nm working yet - A16/M3 will probably built...

@panther fan Just because the instructions are run as micro ops doesn't make that apparent in the execution queue - you still have to decode the instruction properly _then_ schedule the micro ops...

@Panther fan They can't build an eight wide x86 CPU because of the variable instruction length.

The Firestorm cores in the A14/M1 has a fixed instruction length, so they can peer 690 instructions...

@panther fan So? Name the system, and what are its Geekbench 5 scores unplugged and what is the battery life like?

Yes, and I expect the resale value of these machines to be quite good.

They have leading edge technology and are fast, powerful, and efficient.

When it comes time to unload them, they'll fare...

ArtIsRight video on calibrating these puppies.

Me? I'd just leave them. Apple color calibrates each individual display before it leaves the factory.

https://youtu.be/bqF_SQWv8x0

They designed the old chassis for the CPU that Intel had promised them in their product roadmap.

The problem is that Intel never delivered.

If you value your time, figure what this puppy is going to save you time-wise over a five year period (or however long you keep your laptops). Then take the resale value of this machine at the end...

With x86 offerings, you get to pick one: speed or efficiency.

You can get one or the other, but not both.

For a laptop, power efficiency is important.

If not being used as a laptop, the machine could more properly be characterized as a portable desktop (always tied to a power outlet).

If you could play with a brand spankin' new fully functional Amiga, betcha you would miss it less 😄.

I was just going through a stack of iPhones ranging back to the 3G, along with a first gen...

Basically, Apple bet the company on the iPhone in 2007. They were not in great shape until the iPhone took off.

They were lagging in sales because IBM wasn't going in the direction Apple needed...

No one except enterprises whose entire IT staffs consist of MCSEs really cares about processors or underlying operating systems - most consumers and studios just want what works and allows them to...

Maybe, but to this day Apple still sells Intel based desktop systems, including the very expensive Mac Pro.

Apple is a much more prosperous company than they were back then, and can afford to keep...