wallym

Agreed.  Computers and Tablets are definitely two different use cases.  I use my ipad for somethings and I use my mac for other things.  I find touch screens on a computer don't work for me from a workflow standpoint.  Moving my arm from the keyboard to the screen and back just doesn't work for me.  The tablet and the computer do not compete in the world that I live in and the work that I do.  They could compete in other areas, but not mine.

My engineering brain says that the hinged area is always going to be a problem.  A buddy has a samsung fold something.  He loves it, but I never can get any info from him regarding what it does that is special.  He is in the "anybody but apple" ideology.

I always question if the world will buy a more expensive iPhone, and each year I am proven wrong, so I'll bet that there is someone out there that will buy it in quantity.  I bought a top of the line iPhone 15 pro max, so I know I am one of the suckers.

RAM is like closet space, there is no such thing as "too much."

From what I have read out in the semiconductor area, the problem is power utilization on the apple designed modem chips.  This is hard stuff to do.  you want fast.  You want low power.  Everybody's stuff is going to work great outside of my office.  The problem is what happens in the mountains, or on the autobahn/interstate, or in some country without the best infrastructure.  I can imagine that getting this right is hard and takes a long time.  if it doesn't work right for qualcomm, that is a major blow for them.  If it doesn't work right for apple, oh well, another year of buying qualcomm chips.

Funny thing in this is that when I got my 2018 iphone, I think it had an intel modem 4g chip in it, and I noticed that I got some better performance in a few areas where I had had problems before.  I never knew if that was because of the phone chip or improved provider service in the area.  Now that I have 5g, I'm on 5g just about everywhere except in a few mountainous areas.  I recently have been driving thru Appalachian mountains in tn/nc and I've been getting 5g pretty much all the way thru.

Great.  I can think about replacing my 2018 Macbook Pro running intel.  I bet that Apple will mark my mbp as obsolete this fall.  I like the Intel chips, but Intel screwed the pooch and Apple is on to Arm.