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  • Compared: 14-inch MacBook Pro vs MSI GP66 Leopard gaming notebook

    mr lizard said:
    There’s another difference the article doesn’t point out: you can play hundreds of top tier games on the MSI. 

    I sort of get the point of doing a comparison like this, but there’s a reason Apple stopped at the chip: their comparison was to show how powerful their silicon is compared to Intel. The MSI was a useful example because gaming is typically a demanding activity. 

    Comparing the features of actual laptops however is less helpful in this context. MSI is a gaming laptop. Gaming is literally why it exists. Saying the MacBook is more “useful” ignores the fact that, despite the power of its chip, it can’t come close to competing with the MSI on its turf.  
    The first and most important choice for gamers is availability of games. Then they will seek the most powerful machine. M1 Pro has much better hardware than MSI. But it needs to attract the gaming software developers before a comparison is meaningful. 
    GeorgeBMacwilliamlondonanonconformistargonautpatchythepirate
  • Yahoo Finance app pulled from Chinese App Store

    mubaili said:
    Until Apple gets its acts together and have a second supply chain ready outside of China Apple’s hands are tied. Instead of paying dividends and doing stock buy backs, Apple should spend all these money to set up an alternative supply chain. Once it is up, Apple could then push back on those demands, go to courts to challenge those demands, or make those demands details public for everyone to see and judge. Until then, there is not much Apple can do but kowtow to all those demands…
    This is China haters dream. It won't work. Plenty of companies in the world manufacture in China. Samsung does. Intel does. This is not because of cheap labor. Cook had said it before. China has enough talented hard working people to satisfy Apple's production needs. No other nation can replace it. 
    GeorgeBMac
  • TSMC plans new chip factory with Sony in western Japan

    The previous US presidency started this drive to invite industry back to the country. But why was this started so late? I mean, the shit was already deep into the fan, and building a functional manufacturing industry takes a very long time. Naivism; underestimating China? Fear of confronting China?
    A lot of people naively thought that if we built up China’s economy and made China a rich nation, then China would naturally become a democratic country because the people would demand it. Unfortunately, as China is getting richer, the government is becoming even more authoritarian. Oops!

    Except American industries didn't go to China.   They went to Japan and South Korea 40-50 years ago -- THEN, in later decades, they migrated to China.   But, Americans are just now catching on....
    In the 80s, American car buyers were forced to buy thrift Japanese cars due to high gas prices. Detroit suffered a lot. US government coerced Japan to manufacture cars in US. The result is Japan economy stagnated since then. Their companies set up plants all over the world. Samsung also manufacturing electronics in China now. This is a global thing. China just happen to be the better place to do manufacturing. This is pure business. Unfortunately there are many people trying to use politics to influence business. And this is authoritarian. 
    No, not at all...
    The gas crisis was in the early 70's.  And yeh, at that time Japanese cars were small, compacts -- unlike the American chrome plated behemoths.  But that was in the infancy of the switch to Japanese cars.

    By the 80's, American manufacturers ackowledged that Japanese cars were of high quality than what they had been making and tried to switch over to what they called "World Class Cars" and emulate or duplicate Japanese manufacturing processes - even their management techniques.  But they were junk.  It was the last time I bought an American car -- they (at least the one I had, an Oldsmobile Firenza) was a bigger piece of junk than what they had made previously.
    There are American cultivated talents moving to Taiwan. TSMC is an example. TSMC is still largely held by foreign capital. 
    Alex_V
  • M1X MacBook Pro still expected to launch in October

    mrstep said:
    chelgrian said:
    Apple really needs to start building chip fabs all around the world. The situation brewing between Taiwan and China poses an existential threat to Apple and the entire tech industry. It would cost Apple a hundred billion dollars or more but the investment would pay off for decades to come.
    Not true. If Chian reunite Taiwan, it will be swift. Everything will return to normal shortly. And Apple wasted billions of dollars on other nations that are incapable. 
    You mean if China invade and try and take Taiwan by force. TSMC want to keep things in Taiwan exactly because that gives the best odds that the US won't at stand for it and would defend Taiwan.

    Everything would not 'return to normal', there would be a decade where America retools to have cutting edge fabs available locally. 
    There will be no invasion. Everything will return to normal swiftly. Apple will continue order chips from TSMC. The only people that will be dismayed are China haters. 
    Wow, someone's been drinking the "renegade province" Kool-Aid.

    If I were the Taiwanese government, I'd make sure those fabs are destroyed before the CCP got their hands on them in a "military reunification".  At least the Afghanistan debacle didn't give anyone in China the idea that the US is a fickle partner, eh Comrade?
    Total nonsense! China worked with the world for the last forty years. And you China haters are trying every way you can to make China an enemy of the world. 
    williamlondon
  • M1X MacBook Pro still expected to launch in October

    chelgrian said:
    Apple really needs to start building chip fabs all around the world. The situation brewing between Taiwan and China poses an existential threat to Apple and the entire tech industry. It would cost Apple a hundred billion dollars or more but the investment would pay off for decades to come.
    Not true. If Chian reunite Taiwan, it will be swift. Everything will return to normal shortly. And Apple wasted billions of dollars on other nations that are incapable. 
    I hope you are right but I expect it would be a huge mess. It will likely be far bigger mess than China's slow take over of Hong Kong with TMSC shut down indefinitely. There would be an immediate scramble to smuggle the experts out of the country. China would want grab experts and equipment itself for its own fabs. The world's tech industry would pretty much shut down as not only would it lose most of its capacity but it would also take time to retool alternate fabs for essential silicon. If you pull half the chips the world uses out of production, almost nothing will work. Thats because you will discover that while you may be able to get the CPU you need, the RAM, controller or SSD will suddenly become unavailable. China taking over Taiwan could be an extinction level event and we have not even discussed how the West will respond when a nation they have sworn to protect and depend upon gets attacked.
    You don't know the high tech industry. Why would China shutdown TSM? What China did not Hong Kong has nothing to do with business. It is purely political. Hong Kong people life is the same as before. Further, TSM build chips for Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, AMD, etc. China build fabs to meet these demands? The global chip business is far bigger and complicated that can be changed easily. Biden is trying to change it. It will not work well. 
    There is no source of cutting edge lithography machines or wafers in China and neither Applied Materials or ASML will sell to China. This would get worse not better in the event of an invasion of Taiwan.

    Biden isn't trying to change anything he hardly knows what lithography is. What is happening is that a variety of US companies are taking federal money to improve the availability of cutting edge foundry services on American soil.
    High tech industry is extremely competitive and innovative. Biden and his predecessor is trying to use politics to change the high tech industry. This is not how silicon valley become world leading. It is completely free. If federal money can help, why Intel the world largest semiconductor company is failing? It can get any money it wants. Money does not help it. 
    williamlondon