I thought the M3 was no longer being manufactured, it was just stop-gap version with significant limitations in manufacturing.
I was a little surprised by that, too, but I have a hypothesis..
Both Apple and Intel reserved a fair bit of TSMC capacity for N3B. If either or both of them ended up not using the full capacity they reserved, it would mean TSMC has a fab not being fully utilized. I wonder if Arrow Lake, in particular, might be selling far worse than Intel anticipated, freeing up capacity.
Folks, this is the air. It’s a much cheaper tablet than the pro. What do you expect, a product with equal specs to a much more expensive model? This is a pretty good chip, with a good performance increase over the last model. Stop whining!
I would rather have 90 Hz refresh rate, FaceID, and/or spend $50-100 less than this M-series CPU. The Air doesn't have the cooling to benefit from M3. Apple is spending too much on processing power.
I have to disagree in that one. It wouldn’t cost that much less, if anything, to do what you want, possibly even more. Then people would complain about an enemic SoC. Heck, some have done that with the M3 here.
Folks, this is the air. It’s a much cheaper tablet than the pro. What do you expect, a product with equal specs to a much more expensive model? This is a pretty good chip, with a good performance increase over the last model. Stop whining!
I would rather have 90 Hz refresh rate, FaceID, and/or spend $50-100 less than this M-series CPU. The Air doesn't have the cooling to benefit from M3. Apple is spending too much on processing power.
I have to disagree in that one. It wouldn’t cost that much less, if anything, to do what you want, possibly even more. Then people would complain about an enemic SoC. Heck, some have done that with the M3 here.
Yeah. Have to be mindful that this is the Internet and the goalposts for value always shifts to wanting more. There is always someone who will say some new product is a bad deal, the Internet will find that person and put them on a soapbox for all to hear.
The iPA13 for $800 with M3 and 8/128 is a really good deal. The iPA11 for those same compute features for $600 is an even better deal. With cellular, $750. That’s a very good deal, imo.
A buyer would really want to have a 13” tablet, OLED, 16 GB RAM as the upgrade options are pricey, and bundled/combined. Very few things are a la carte.
I would actually pay for a downgrade in the back cam so there isn’t and bump. Like use the another front cam as the back camera.
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Both Apple and Intel reserved a fair bit of TSMC capacity for N3B. If either or both of them ended up not using the full capacity they reserved, it would mean TSMC has a fab not being fully utilized. I wonder if Arrow Lake, in particular, might be selling far worse than Intel anticipated, freeing up capacity.