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dave haynie said:

Not only is this nonsense, it's actually backwards. Unified memory, whether on a PC or a Mac (hint: unified memory is nothing new... all iGPUs are unified memory systems), are offering LESS memory than traditional dGPU-based systems. Not more. 

As well, regular everyday OS activities don't individually eat up memory anymore. Maybe Apple is efficient herr, but they're leading away from the real point: modern content creation-- supposedly Apple's specialty -- is the gigantic memory suck. Which is of course why Apple recommends a minimum of 16GiB, even going back to dGPU Intel systems, for this kind of work.

Those are not the same thing from an engineering and design standpoint. Only a layman's understanding of integrated graphics using some of the system memory would call that unified.

Here's a simple and succinct write up on Quora that spells it out in easy to understand terms:

Intel integrated graphics is a low performance GPU that take up a portion of what would otherwise be CPU components on the CPU and takes away a chunk of system RAM permanently, this is a low cost low performance method to provide very mild graphics acceleration so the CPU is not overloaded with graphics such as when displaying the GUI in Microsoft Windows

• Apple Unified Memory is the newest generation of technology that delivers a massive RAM bus with a huge number of RAM channels sits below all the cores and connects all cores simultaneously
• This delivers extremely high speed access which supports high performance because all core (CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, Image Processing, Acceleration cores (ProRES, h.264, etc.) all have full access to all RAM directly
• This architecture is much faster than the old fashioned Intel integrated graphics so it delivers phenomenal performance to everything the user does on his Apple Silicon powered devices

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-unified-memory-and-integrated-graphics

I don't think we'll see much in terms of visual changes going forward. The notebook design has long been established and with M-series chips now in play the biggest differentiator will be how the M-series chips are designed for future performance and efficiency. Maybe it's not as exciting as it used to be in terms of a teardown reveal, but it's great place to be with mature CE.

The problem with this proposal is that Apple Pay is for the secure setup of the card, but transactions aren't be funneled through Apple's servers the way it is for Pay Pal, Venmo, and CashApp.

22july2013 said:

Apple practically invented the home computer, and practically invented the mouse, but those are the two main products it still can't win customers for.

What the fuck are you on about? Apple popularized the mouse but it didn’t invent it—that was Xerox PARC.

Home computers are a lot more than the iMac. It’s every Mac, and now the majority of iPhones and iPads are  computers used in the home. I know many people who use an iPad as their primary computing device; most with no Mac option any longer.

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