rob53

So your amphetamine of choice is caffeine. Too much caffeine is what's ruining this country. Drinking way too much caffeinated coffee is destructive to your body and your brain. A person's body is not meant to be supercharged every second of the day. Boasting about it does not make you a better person. Drinking more than 5 cups of coffee a day puts you in the area of being a banned stimulant for participation in NCAA sports. I'm sure way too many people drink more than 5 cups of coffee just in the morning.

I have to laugh about the ad revenue generated from Safari search result advertising. Raise your hand if you AREN'T using some kind of advertisement blocking on Safari. Wait, I'm not seeing any hands so at least the commenters on this forum aren't bothered by Google's (and other's) advertising. Apple knows this and they got $20B along with 36% of ad revenue. I use DuckDuckGo and there's very little advertising except for those ads buried in websites that aren't from Google. 

The title talks about server-grade performance but if I remember correctly servers only speed up certain processes. Desktop systems are capable of doing a bunch of things instead of server-type number crunching. At this point, I care less about AI than doing typical desktop things. Sure, having an Apple system that's server-grade for doing server-type processes (yes, I mean a consumer, local iCloud server) would be great. Splitting the CPU from the GPU might be nice if, as others have said, they continue to have a very high speed internal bus. On the other hand, once Apple splits the CPU from the GPU, then will they split the memory and storage as well? This sounds like we're going back to a component based system instead of a SoC. On the other hand, GPUs appear to be the faster computing device. For the mythical recreation of the Apple Server, an adequate CPU connected to a huge GPU farm with access to easily replaceable storage would be a great idea. The big question for Mac users is which applications make use of CPUs and which make use of GPUs? I know most applications make use of both but if the GPU can handle higher levels of computing (the top of the TOP500 supercomputers use tons of GPUs) but would it be beneficial if more macOS applications adjusted their applications to predominantly use GPUs instead of CPUs? PCIe 7.0 is supposed to be able to handle 128Gt/s (giga-transfers/sec). I believe (probably wrong) the M4 might use a PCIe 5 internal bus. Anyway, none of this really matter to 95% of Apple consumers, they just want everything to work and keep working for as long as possible.

I'd love to see Apple resurrect their networking products. A big problem I see, however, is that Comcast/xfinity charges extra to use your own modem and router by charging for the higher data package while not charging if you use their garbage modem/router. I want to go back to my former city that had its own high-speed fiber network without any ISP to deal with. 

Anything with any type of hinge is an issue. Laptop hinges regularly have hinge issues so why handicap an iPad or iPhone with a hinge. The hinge line will always be a usability issue. Forget using it as a Wacom tablet. Anytime you draw or edit near the hinge will cause problems with accuracy. Apple doesn’t always need to copy other products and try and make them better. Folding iPhone and iPad are two products I never want to see foldable.