A look at power on the new M1 Max

Post by kube-system » Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 12:37 AM UTC

michaelmrose wrote: post #70

kube-system wrote: post #69

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I understand price bracketing; I use that technique in my own products. I know it's not always apparent when immersed in highly technical communities, but there are a significant number of people who use their computers very casually. Not people who sit at a computer for hours, but people who open their computer to go to a website. Plenty of entirely computer literate people simply don't use tabs unless they click on…

So it's good for rich people who could be satisfied by a 12 year old dell but whom would like to display their status by spending 1000 to have the appropriate brand on the device they barely use?

Post by sharikous » Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 2:53 PM UTC

traspler wrote: post #72

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That kind of technology will leak through the whole industry. Either by hiring those very sought out CPU engineers, sharing processes and components, etc. Even if you cannot order OEM Apple Silicon chips it doesn't mean it won't directly change the whole industry. There is a significant percentage of people who are in the market for good laptops and that's enough market for companies like Intel to imitate Apple and s…

I get the "trickle-down effect", new ideas, engineers, etc. tend to get around but I remain sceptical that this will lead to the same incredible perf leap in other products. The iPhone with it's chips has been around quite a while the Apple Watch a bit less so but Qualcomm's chips still seem significantly behind. If this is wrong please do correct me, this is just my observation.