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viclauyyc said:

sflocal said:

viclauyyc said:

Well, it looks good on number in the presentation. But let’s not forget the Ultra is comparing with a 2 year old Xeon. 2 years is a lot in computer technology. Not to mention, arguably AMD’s Epyc is the fastest CPU in the PC world. 

Let’s hope the future Mac Pro will be even faster with 4/8 sets of CPU. But it might cost $8000 on the entry model.

Intel's offerings until just recently have remained stagnant on the Xeon side.  It's only right to compare it with Apple's current Mac Pro offerings, even though it's 2 years old.  It's still incredible how Apple has pushed the performance envelope in those two years where Intel was nowhere to be seen.

While AMD's offerings is also impressive, when compared in terms of performance-per-watt, ASi outperforms them both.

Honestly, I don’t understand why Apple is so emphasis on performance/watt. Sure save energy is good and less noise from fan. But no one really care if their $100000 sports car use much less gas than the next car. People care about how fast it can go and how it handle the corner, not gas/miles.

I disagree.
It's the difference between sitting next to a noisy heater versus a silent, cool computer. It's yet another thing to appreciate, but has a real impact if your noise floor is important. (E.g. if recording content, editing audio, or making a video call etc.)
Another benefit is that these macs are used in rack designs - power use and heat emissions are both important there, but the low drain also means the power supply is physically smaller. It's not just more performance per watt, it's more performance per volume of space.

Current Intel designs cannot deliver performance without a large power drain and significant heat expulsion.

So there's a myriad of difference scenarios where this matters, and such thinking isn't isolated to computers; to use your car example: Tesla vehicles use no petrol and operate relatively quietly while delivering performance - buyers seem to care about this stuff in automobiles as well.

Tesla is obsessed with Apple. 

Speaking directly to design: Tesla doesn't have a leg to stand on, their premier vehicle is a rip off of the Jaguar design, and youtube is filled with videos complaining about their piss poor build quality.

The hypocrisy is astounding.

Also the lot of you don't get to define what a console is based on your personal preference for where the iPhone should lay. 
It has always been a closed platform of approved apps only, just because you can perform duties which resemble that of a general purpose computer doesn't change that fact.

I’m guessing it had less to do with being able to track people and more to do with one of their machines killing a toddler.

Things must be hard if Google are resorting to extreme mental gymnastics to convince Apple to port iMessage to Android.
Here's an idea for Google - they have a bunch of exclusive stuff too, why not offer some of that in return? Perhaps they could show some good-will for once instead of trying to use social media PR to change the agenda of another company.

Perhaps Apple's unwillingness to share the love is because Google have utilised every one of their platforms to batter at iOS? There is no limit to Google's pettiness, even going so far as holding back turn-by-turn navigation in the old Maps app for no other reason than the lolz. Perhaps in this spirit Google could share positional/location data of all businesses on Google Maps - that would be fairer for small business and mom-n-pop stores too.

Edit: Just on the topic of Youtube - everyone should check out the Vinegar extension for Safari. It returns PIP mode to Youtube, cuts out the ads and lets you continue listening after leaving the tab or sleeping the phone. (Plus it's one app for both iOS and Mac.)