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melgross said:

I don’t expect AMD to “win” anything, and by win, I assume you mean taking a large percentage of marketshare, possibly more than 50%. This has been the dream of AMD enthusiasts for a couple of decades, at least. But realistically, more than 8 cores has little benefit for most anyone. It’s not as thought Intel is standing still. Now with 10nm on line, equivelant to about everyone else’s 7nm, we’ll see them equalizing the competitive landscape. It could take a year or so to do it, but they will. Intel was counted out before, but the soothsayers were proven wrong. I predict they will be again.

I think AMD consistently gaining market share in server, HEDT, and consumer desktop space is definitely "winning" for them, but it doesn't mean intel has to "lose".  My excitement for AMD is based around their consistent IPC improvement with Ryzen.  They currently are matching intel in single core performance in many applications at lower clock speeds.  I can't help but be reminded of intel in the Pentium 4 days.  They just kept pushing clock speed without improving the IPC of their chips.  I feel like their entire "lake" series of chips is just slight clock speed bumps without much improvement in chip design.  I also don't see anything on their published roadmap that really changes this.  The 10nm transition will allow them to improve power efficiency and boosts clock some more, but it may be time for a redesign like the P4 days where they switched to the Pentium M architecture. 

AMD bet big on the chiplet design with the infinity fabric, and they have been consistently delivering.  Even if Apple never adopts AMD chips, they benefit from the massive price drops Intel has been forced to make to stay competitive in the desktop space.  If AMD can deliver similar results in the mobile space, it will force intel's hand on the mobile pricing.  Seeing vendors at CES debuting new laptop models with AMD chips is not something that I remember ever happening, and has to have at least put a little fear in team blue.

**Anyone who didn't read about the intel price cuts, they were around 50% on the high end skylake chips, because the cascade lake chips were launching with the same core counts at much lower prices.

The other thing about Wifi 6 is that its supposed to have better speed at the max range of the wifi.  So depending on the size of your house a single Wifi 6 router may do a better job of covering your house then a previous generation router.  I have a gaming router that struggles out in my garage but covers the rest of the house.  Hopefully with the new standard i can stick with a single router rather than going with a mesh solution(nothing wrong with Mesh solutions at all, I just prefer as few hops in the routing as possible).  I would be curious how much latency, if at all noticeable, is introduced when connecting to the extension vs the hardwired node these.

elfig2012 said:

OLED for 2020...Apple always very late to catchup, where is the “one more thing” invention-Apple?

Apple has been using OLED for a few years now, not sure what you mean by this comment?

It will be interesting.  I believe the new Note 10 5G is coming out with the x55 modem, which integrates 5G, LTE, 3G and 2G into a single smaller chip.  If it was available in time for the planning of the next iPhone, then it would be good to see it incorporated.  However, it still requires additional antenna's, and with the Apple/Qualcomm settlement not happening until earlier this year I just don't see it being included.  I don't think it as a deal breaker personally as I am on WIFI 90% of the time, but if someone has a newer iPhone it might behoove them to wait until next year.  

eightzero said:

mac-daddy said:

The interface of Apple TV is solid, it's the damn remote I can't get used to. Way too simplistic. 

Ayup. When I first got it, I thought I could tolerate the remote. I was wrong. I don't use my AppleTV hardly at all now because of it. 

I've gotten used to it, figuring out that I could tap the edges to move a single app/tile over saved me from snapping it in half as I scrolled past my desired location for the nth time.  To give credit to aspects of its design, its small, rechargeable battery life is fantastic, its very tough(I have stepped on it, sat on it, dropped it, etc) with no apparent damage.  It just needs more tactile inputs.  I don't know how many times I picked it up in the dark and swiped on the non touchpad side.  Have some form of tactile contour, a more tradition + input, or something like that.  My only other major complaint is the keyboard layout in tvOS.  I wish you could switch it to a QWERTY layout, having to scroll left and right for manual input(thanks Siri) is a PITA.