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ObjectiveTechFan said: Very thoughtful write up by DED. I might add two points. First, Microsoft doesn't need or want to compete too aggressively in the PC hardware market. They pull in $1B from Surface (at low or no profit) but several times…
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ctt_zh said: The Surface product line is doing just fine. Microsoft Surface Quarterly revenue gains / losses since the last revenue decrease in 2017 Q4: 2020 Q1 -4% 2019 Q4 +14% 2019 Q3 +21% 2019 Q2 +39% 2019 Q1 +14% 2018 Q4 +25% 2018…
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mcdave said: I think the Surface line’s ‘slow’ growth is due to a few factors; 1) The article compares the current slow-quarter with the peak-quarter 5 years ago. A peak to peak comparison shows $900m to $1,800m. Have Mac sales doubled on t…
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Kopfschmerzen said: Still not sure why others can’t achieve what Apple can in chip design. And, while every editorial praises Apple’s approach (concentrating on premium devices only), there must be companies making cheap devices. There’s …
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callmeacabernet said: I guess if the fake news keeps calling it a "climate crisis" long enough, the uninformed will start to believe it. I for one, see no evidence of a climate "crisis." Apple can afford to divert some of its excess profits …
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wizard69 said: By the way I must point out that this article is screwed as far as accuracy goes. Metal and Vulkan are ver similar and derived from the same basic infrastructure. As such Vulkan is as good or even better than Metal in the role…
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cat52 said: sflocal said: These politicians are only making a ruckus to ensure their re-election. Nothing more. I bet the protestors in HK would beg to differ. While politicians do like to grandstand regarding all sorts of t…
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davgreg said: So the great unanswered question is will there be a Mac Pro available for me to purchase before January 1, 2020? On the consumer end of the Mac line I expect to see Apple developed GPUs in the not too distant future. If they ev…
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dysamoria said: corrections said: First, Apple "actually" started courting games for Mac OS X in 2001. These engines have been on the Mac for many years. So what's new is development making its way to the Mac. And the quotes, w…
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wizard69 said: Wow another excessively wordy article that fails miserably. Apple has about a 0% chance of making Metal an industry standard. A Mac standard yes, industry no. Vulkan is what the industry is moving to and that has a lot to …
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OutdoorAppDeveloper said: It is not a question of Metal vs CUDA. Metal is a weaker language for GPGPU than CUDA but it is getting better and should reach parity at some point in the future. The issue is that a "Pro" computer must allow users …
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tht said: dysamoria said: Is Apple actually going to start courting gaming on Macs? How will they do that? They are not trying to woo PC games on Macs. They are trying to woo iOS gamers on Macs with Arcade. So if PC games go through…
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dysamoria said: Game development on a Mac Pro huh...? Doubt it. That is a PC development world. Games do get ported to Mac OS sometimes, and gamers consistently complain that the performance is inferior on Mac OS (even when run on the same ha…
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tht said: Apple’s recent FCPX release with the new metal engine can improve performance by 20% to 40%. Yowsers. I don’t know what to think. Prior releases of the GPU compute engine in FCP were really bad? The recent Metal API improvements ar…
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ElCapitan said: And that was the village idiot comment of the day! Please don't abuse the comments section with insults that do not add anything to the discussion. Aim higher up on the hierarchy of the disagreement.
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gatorguy said: English is not your first language obviously. If you can't maintain a conversation or argue your point without being an insulting, racist asshole, you need to leave, "Gatorguy."
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tabaks said: This is UNACCEPTABLE! I have disabled the feature immediately, my browsing is FAR safer than the possible risk of Chinese abuse of our Internet usage data! Apple is really selling us out to China, including the ass-kissing Hong K…
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rob53 said: "It was the lack of any modern manufacturing culture, including the schools and apprenticeships needed to train specialized mechanical engineers. " I continue to say that this is the biggest problem and liability corporate America…
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gatorguy said: LOL... somehow Google and/or their products makes it's way into every DED article whether it's related or not. In this case not. Whaddaboutism at its finest. Otherwise it's a good article. Nothing is black and white. Di…
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MacAwesome1984 said: I read about 1/4 of this article then paused to scroll down to see how much more of this diatribe there was, reading an additional paragraph here and there. Dude, are you Bi-Polar? Having "Just Another Manic Monday?" Holy…