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  • Intel delays rollout of 7-nanometer chips by six months

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    lkrupp said:
    omasou said:
    JinTech said:
    And this is why Apple is switching to their own silicon. 
    Apple's switch to ARM is not related to this.  They were going to do it regardless.
    Apple Si and ARM are two completely different things.
    Apple's Silicon is based on the ARM Instruction Set Architecture.
    So now the geek army wants to argue about ARM vs Apple Silicon. Anything to try and diminish Apple’s achievement in this switch. The haters will insist on calling it Mac on ARM and Apple Silicon a cheap marketing trick to deceive users. Even though Apple’s SOCs will bear little resemblance to processors in other devices. But you go right ahead and bitch about it.
    What you are impliying is basically the same as saying that AMD Ryzen got nothing to do with x86 because it doesn't use Intel design. No matter how you want to turn the truth around, Apple design are using the ARM instruction set. Yes, their design is the best among all ARM chips, but they are still following the ARM instruction set. 

    Using that ARM instruction set doesn't mean that you using the ARM chipset design.

    Intrustruction set doesn't equal internal design if that's the part that's confusing you. It just means that apple chip and other arm chip are speaking a language that is very similar, but apple chip are more fluent when it comes to speak in that language.



    Saying that doesn't take away any of Apple credits, geez.
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  • Latest leak has "sleek" Apple Glasses coming out in 2021 instead of 2022

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    JWSC said:
    Will prescription lenses be available?
    Yes..?

    Do you really expect such details to be available on an unannounced product?
    Of course not, but he brings up a good point.  The Apple Watch "just" had to displace traditional watches, but Apple Glasses would have to displace regular glasses.  I imagine that the number of people who wear glasses is much higher than the people who used to wear watches.
    Apple’s glasses are not built to replace or displace the eyeglass market. They are another wearable computing device which currently has no competition except the holo lens which is not a mass market product. This will be a whole new market and Apple will be the first to sell it in mass quantities
    If they have built-in cameras they could.
    I don't think they would allow people to drive with electronic eye correction in some countries. The simple fact that's is AR, means that it has the potential to be distracting. Yes you might turn it off, but there's always going to be a few people using ar while driving "just to try", just like some people are still drving while texting/holding their phones.

    Then there's the fact that it's electronic, so bugs/hardware failure need to be considered. Classic glasse/lens are stupid and simple, but that's what makes them so good as everydays items for eyesight. Analog is just better in some cases.

    I'm curious to see what they are going to bring/looks like though.
    dysamoria

  • Compared: Microsoft's Surface Book 3 versus Apple's iPad Pro

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    roundaboutnow said:

    The Surface Book 3 attempts to solve the problem of making a notebook work similar to a tablet. Apple has looked at things from the opposite direction, making a tablet work similar to a notebook.
    It seems a lot easier (or at least more "natural") to build upon a "touch first" OS to add notebook/desktop OS features than the other way around.

    Who can say if this was the strategy all along, but Apple has the luxury of being able to do this with iPadOS.

    While the MS 1st-party apps and perhaps certain other major app providers grow accommodations for touch, it seems Windows will continue to be hobbled by the huge numbers of smaller, niche and legacy apps that just can't or won't be able to adapt to new UI paradigms. For all these apps designed with a mouse-centric point-and-click UI, that becomes the only practical method of interaction, limiting what might be considered "Windows compatibility" in the future. With iPadOS apps built with touch in mind, interacting via mouse has recently been neatly sorted out, so we can already go either way.
    Yep. Microsoft own success in the 90's is now an hindrance. They can't move forward since so many of their customers are still looking to the past. If windows cannot run desktop apps, then no one wants it.

    And windows phone fail means that the windows store will always be lacking. There's simply no point for them to push a full touch based windows, when there's no app to use at all, so they have to keep doing that hybridisation.

    Unless android somehow kick the bucket, there is just no space for a third player in the mobile market. That train is looooong gone.
    watto_cobra

  • Compared: Microsoft's Surface Book 3 versus Apple's iPad Pro

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    usersinceos1 said:
    dyonoctis said:
    knowitall said:
    GPU is much better on the iPad, as is OS support.
    ....If apple had such skills that could make something as powerfull with such a low power cossumption, then they are literally wasting everyone time by using AMD gpus.
    Who says the Surface's power consumption is lower than the iPad's?  Note that the Surfaces weigh 3 times more than the iPads.  That weight can translate to a much larger battery.
    Where did I said that the surface had a lower power consumption ? What I said is that if Apple GPUs who can fit in something as slim as an Ipad, without any active cooling was way better than a GTX 1660 Ti who need active cooling to keep those 120 watts in check, then they are making the best GPUs in the world, and everyone else is at least 10 years behind. The 1660Ti is faster than most of the GPUs currently used by apple. Only the mac pro/imac pro have faster options.

    My wording might have been poor, but that's what I was saying.
    watto_cobra

  • Compared: Microsoft's Surface Book 3 versus Apple's iPad Pro

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    knowitall said:
    GPU is much better on the iPad, as is OS support.
    Over the base Intel gpu sure, but the GTX 1660 Ti ? I doubt it. If apple had such skills that could make something as powerfull with such a low power cossumption, then they are literally wasting everyone time by using AMD gpus.
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