danox

tht said:

Each Mac is a base-level version of a machine equipped with an M4 chip. Of the four, three have 10 total cores in their CPUs, while one lower-end has eight cores.

Hmm, for different Mac product lines or 4 options in 1 or 2 M4 Mac products?

M4 iMac
M4 Mac mini
M4 Macbook Air
M4 Macbook Pro

Could be a really fast 6 month life for the M3 MBA15. Would be a miracle if the iMac is updated within a year.

This might be the year my 2013 iMac 27" is retired. It's still going though. We don't use it for anything other than as a server, mostly.

williamlondon said:

New troll uses 3 posts to decry the notch, ffs.

designguybrown said:

Unions are just refuges for the lazy, broken, and anarchistic. There is no need/want of them in a modern civilization with safety and health standards cheap and in place.  In a rich country, you truly can be and do anything though the route may be difficult, unpalatable, and even self-destructive - but the point is that the choice is there and its not difficult to be in the economic top 25% (or work less than 30 hours a week, if desired) on very obvious, non-exclusive, fair, and reasonable paths of focus, money (reasonable) and effort. People now have incredible powers of flexibility to quit, move, network, re-locate, know much in advance about a proposed work company, and develop their own skill set within a wide range of very different economic/ life cost regions. The reality is that out-dated fluff concepts such as full defined-benefit pensions, guaranteed work, arbitrary minimum wages, collective bargaining, work-life balance, rent-control, etc., just lead to a cost of living decline and opportunity reduction in a wider region for everyone. Hyper inflation, lack of product and job choice, poor productivity, and a climate of conflict and retribution naturally emerge and spread in such places - witness Detroit, France, the grocery sector, etc., and related garbage systems.  I get it - a lot of people have screwed up their lives and need to be sheltered as they weather family crises (likely chronic) and poor lifestyle decisions - but rip that band aid off and take control of your own life. A work environment of transparency, opportunity, and incentive will always be more satisfying in the long term to the dedicated than mob rule and chaos. 

avon b7 said:

danox said:

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danox said:

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ssfe11 said:

Doesn’t look like Apple is “struggling” now. Bringing in house 5G chips is huge and another Apple in house triumph. The biggest mistake anyone can make is to underestimate Tim Cook. Great job!

Tim Cook can be considered for ultimate blame in not delivering this years ago. 

He became CEO in 2011. The first mobile 5G modem launched in 2019 following 10 years of development.

Strategic goals sit firmly at his door. He goofed on Qualcomm and 5G. He got into a worldwide patent spat with a possible 5G supplier (Qualcomm, one of very few) and had no real alternative to already poor performing Intel modems.

When 5G hit mobile, Intel failed to deliver (was that a surprise seeing how their 4G modems performed?) and Apple was caught with its pants down. 

Suddenly it was kiss-and-make-up with Qualcomm (basically on the steps of the court with battle about to commence), signing a deal for them to supply Apple with (back then) an older bolted-on modem (a true Yikes! moment) and Apple bought Intel's failing 5G modem division. 

They've been rushing (and seemingly failing) to deliver ever since. They then signed the longer term deal with Qualcomm mentioned in the article.

Strategically, an in-house 5G modem was only considered very late in the day and as a result of earlier failed strategic decisions. They basically had to 'lick the toad' and get on with it. We can conclude that, strategically speaking, there was never an in-house 5G modem on the road map.

In terms of forward thinking I can confirm that Apple is currently working in a group in Europe including Huawei on network sensing technologies but that is for 6G.

Shortsighted, It took 13 years for Apple to replace Intel with Apple Silicon see the shambolic Intel today? Apple is well rid of them.

But where would Apple have been without Intel back then? And what about the competition that is coming through now? 

Where would they have been without Motorola or IBM? They also supplied Apple with cpu's during the glory days and Apple had to dump them like Intel because of their shortsighted vision of the future wasn't Apples you know smaller, faster more powerful chips Motorola, IBM or Intel could have been out in front today instead of dead (Motorola) or comatose (IBM, Intel).

That's a pretty inaccurate take on what actually happened. It is ironic that the Apple part of PowerPC was the power hog. Cooling those chips down was an issue. 

However, the Motorola side actually had some truly groundbreaking embedded, low power, PowerPC chips. At one point, a Motorola exec even claimed that PowerPC was sitting in around 50% of the world's cars. Not too shabby even if they were highly specialiased chips. PowerPC (both regular and embedded versions, but radiation hardened) also went into space. And supercomputers. 

The Intel vs PowerPC thing was like the Plasma vs LCD situation. Volume and pricing were critical.

PowerPC hit the skids for thermals and not being able to keep up. 

Intel was ahead (with PowerPC out of the way) and then had AMD to deal with. 

That's how the industry tends to move. There is zero guarantees that you will always be on top. That applies to Apple too. We know because they've already been down that road.