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Too bad we can’t try to focus on building people computers that last decades.
It had a chunk of metal ( paperweight? ) in the keyboard to make it heavier. It was extensible.
The enclosure was made out of steel and it had a power switch which originated from a mainframe.
It was built to withstand nuclear war and it only lasted for a couple of years.
Too bad we can’t try to focus on building people computers that last decades.
The kids are getting new gaming PCs this week, but we got a solid 5 years from those Dells (after a business got 4) without feeling like it was a painful sacrifice. The kids gaming PCs are definitely faster, but the killer must-have is they support the anti-cheat checks for Valorant, otherwise I might have only upgraded GPUs.
M1 generation was so good that it prompted way more users to jump to it; that demand would spread over multiple generations if it was not so good. On the other hand purposefully gimping M1 would gimp ARM adoption. By delivering great performance, they've build up a lot of goodwill - people willingly port their stuff to macs.
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I’m really curious when we will get there. Especially game consoles, a dedicated chip for running inference could be really fun for developers
I thought Nvidia cards already had some kind of ML hardware for upscaling video games? Which seems them going full circle, since large AI models (except Google TPU code) are usually trained on GPUs, which were originally intended for games.
The only way I buy new MacBooks now is I try to keep it as long as possible as upgrade only to the oldest and cheapest available model. Last time I bought a m1 Mac air for a bargain price. That’s the only way I’m getting real value. The newest models are simply overpriced. Until they launch something new and discount the current models to a decent price. Same goes for iphones
M1 generation was so good that it prompted way more users to jump to it; that demand would spread over multiple generations if it was not so good. On the other hand purposefully gimping M1 would gimp ARM adoption. By delivering great performance, they've build up a lot of goodwill - people willingly port their stuff to macs.
Yes, I did this. I had a 2019 16” i9 that I replaced with a 14” M1 Pro as soon as I could because the Intel/T2 TouchBar machine was so crash prone, glitchy, and hot. The i9 was the worst Mac I’ve ever had. The M1 Pro is probably the best.
Unsurprisingly, sales declined.