How did Apple become so successful making high-end CPU chips on their own so quickly?
It wasn’t that quickly if you consider the years of iPhone chips leading up to it.
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here in EU, the price I get in the local Apple Store is 2029€ = $2153.
Is that with or without VAT? The US always gives prices without VAT, since different states have different rates.
With VAT, I think most EU countries mandate advertised prices to include VAT.
Still, US sales tax is low. EU is >= ~20% almost everywhere.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
You will need to convince your politicians to lower import duties and taxes. And that $1599 USD is without taxes. So not the whole US has this price. It was always worth for me to travel to Oregon to have zero tax.
I think you mean, convince politicians to allow for the ridiculous tax-excluded display pricing that’s prolific in the US.
Well the average VAT in Europe is about twice as high if not more than the average sales tax in the US.
So I’d rather have to do some basic math but save 10% (of course different tax rates only partially explain the price difference, it still is significantly more expensive in Europe without VAT)
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#94Am I the only one shaking my head that they kept comparing the M3 chips against M1 chips skipping M2? Just like the last product release spent more time on huffing their own farts (the Apple Watch is the first of its kind carbon negative product), there is no real innovation or something to garner interest for me here.
Not real innovation (when comparing with Windows world) but having support for hardware raytracing now is definitely nice for games. However, then on the information page they show Myst. Doesn't look spectacular to be honest, probably doesn't make use of hardware raytracing anyways. Having a short video of a fast-paced shooter with hardware ray-tracing support would be more impressive. I guess it will take some time…
Myst supports ray-traced reflections. I agree that it's not a particularly good show piece though.
Re: Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
#95Am I the only one shaking my head that they kept comparing the M3 chips against M1 chips skipping M2? Just like the last product release spent more time on huffing their own farts (the Apple Watch is the first of its kind carbon negative product), there is no real innovation or something to garner interest for me here.
The focus seemed particularly on people still on intel macbooks and selling them on upgrading. I don't think they would usually reference a product that outdated at this point but they brought it up several times highlighting 11x faster.
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#96Base 14" M3 MBP comes with 8 GB RAM at $1599 USD. That's pretty stingy.
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#97This is cool, where can I buy the chips and read their datasheets?
It's even better, you can buy the whole machine, with a great monitor, connectors, a keyboard, and so on!
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#98Re: Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
#99Am I the only one shaking my head that they kept comparing the M3 chips against M1 chips skipping M2? Just like the last product release spent more time on huffing their own farts (the Apple Watch is the first of its kind carbon negative product), there is no real innovation or something to garner interest for me here.
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#100Base 14" M3 MBP comes with 8 GB RAM at $1599 USD. That's pretty stingy.
It’s actually enough for light work, but you can get more ram just pony