What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition • Hacker News Board

Re: What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition

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Post by JohnTHaller » Sun, Jan 08, 2023, 7:25 PM UTC

philistine wrote: post #228

JohnTHaller wrote: post #181

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A similarly priced Windows PC is expandable and upgradeable while also being faster than a Mac Studio.

I'm not sure about faster anymore. You'll have to get your reactionary opinions up-to-date.

I screwed up and forgot to mention that this was more about the Mac Studio vs the Mac Pro and how they compare differently to the Windows side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34222220

My comparison is up to date as the top end chips from Intel and AMD and the top-end Nvidia GPUs handily outpeform the top-end silicon in the Mac Studio's highest end configuration. And for a lower cost. The Studio is a solid machine, but it doesn't have the same 'this is about as good as you can get without a server farm' performance of the top-end Mac Pro when it launched.

Re: What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition

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Post by muro » Wed, Jan 11, 2023, 7:40 AM UTC

jsjohnst wrote: post #260

muro wrote: post #258

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Dell announced a 32" 6k monitor, so it might be possible to go larger without paying 6k Apple.

Have you seen that thing? There’s fugly, then there’s outright “WTF, this is an April Fools, right?! Right!?”.

I didn't before, now I did. What were they thinking? That "forehead"

Re: What’s Left in the Apple Silicon Transition

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Post by girvo » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 5:06 AM UTC

mijkal wrote: post #231

girvo wrote: post #52

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Silly idea: could they put a M-series processor connected to a Xeon as a coprocessor to get the “benefits” of both wrt. adding their NPU stuff? Would that even make any sense?

Once upon a time, Apple shipped a few models with both Motorola PPC + Intel x86 CPUs. Eg: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/specs/mac_quad...

Funnily enough, that's what I had in mind when I asked! Other companies have done similar in the past, though with modern chips, chipsets and protocols/timing requirements on lines, I think it might be more difficult?