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Samsung used to make the iPhone CPUs for Apple, and at the same time the Galaxy was the iPhone's main competitor. Then Apple moved production of their CPUs away from Samsung (to TSMC) and suddenly Samsung is out of ideas, the Galaxy S8 and S9 both lacklustre. Hmmmmmm...

Dave Lee is good value. He goes to great pains to be objective. I watch a lot of YouTube tech channels but he and Lisa Gade are the only two that would effect my buying decisions. 

And note he doesn't just talk about thinness but about the cooling solution in general, because its possible to have better cooling solutions in a device this size by using things like vapor chambers.

Apple said that where they went wrong with the 2013 Mac Pro design was that they thought the future was going to be pairs of smaller GPUs but it turned out to be one big GPU, so they painted themselves in to a corner. Perhaps something similar has happened with the MacBook Pro. Apple thought it was going to be 4 cores for quite a while longer, but Intel had to change their roadmap in response to AMDs moves, and now Apple is painted in to a corner again with a laptop only ever intended for 4 cores.