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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. -
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… -
TSMC plans new chip factory with Sony in western Japan
GeorgeBMac said:waveparticle said:GeorgeBMac said:slow n easy said:dope_ahmine said: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?
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....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.
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M1X MacBook Pro still expected to launch in October
mrstep said:waveparticle said:chelgrian said:waveparticle said:OutdoorAppDeveloper 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.
Everything would not 'return to normal', there would be a decade where America retools to have cutting edge fabs available locally.
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? -
M1X MacBook Pro still expected to launch in October
chelgrian said:waveparticle said:OutdoorAppDeveloper said:waveparticle said:OutdoorAppDeveloper 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.
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.