Rogue01

macxpress said:

I fail to see how taking a company like Apple which has record profits doesn't just keep going status quo. It's not like they cannot afford it. I'm glad Apple isn't following suit and being ridiculous in laying people off because they "think" a recession is coming at some point but it would be nice to see them just not putting extra profits over keeping employees happy. 

The recession is looming.  Inflation at an all time high.  And even Apple's operating costs have increased because water, power, natural gas, have all gone up in price.  Apple is laying people off through attrition.  They are not replacing people that leave.  Same as laying people off because they redistribute the work to others and have them take on more work.  They just did that when a VP of Design left and those duties are now passed on to someone else and the position not being replaced or filled.  So that makes them 'look good' by not publicly announcing layoffs, but the people have to take on more work for the same pay because Apple won't fill the now vacant position.  They just eliminate it instead.

What about the problem with no one wanting them?  With inflation and a looming recession and most living paycheck to paycheck, people have much higher priorities than wasting $3,000 on a pair of Apple goggles that probably won't do much.  Apple thought the iPhone 14 Plus was a such a great idea, and look how bad that turned out.  Apple severely cut back on production because no one wants it.

I would hardly call the Intel laptop unusable without being plugged in.  The article failed to mention that Luke's test on battery only demonstrated the same hard-core video editing/export only to see how performance was affected and how much battery draw took place.  He did not test normal general use on the battery.  He only demonstrated what would heavily tax the CPU.

Considering 95% of people use a laptop while it is plugged in, what is the big deal?  Most people only use it on battery to go attend a meeting and then go back to their desk and plug it back in.  Considering the Intel laptop is targeted at gamers, it will likely be plugged in when playing games.  He also demonstrated plugging it into an HDTV 4K to test the gaming performance and it did quite well.  A gamer would buy the Intel PC laptop over a MacBook any day of the week.  Luke did a fair comparison of both laptops and both have their pros and cons, but he never called the Intel laptop unusable if it wasn't plugged in.  It is a laptop for a different market, and yes, it has incredible specs for being inside a laptop.  Would I buy it?  No, not into a gaming laptop with disco lights.  I would bet you could turn off the disco lights.  

It is pretty obvious that Apple doesn't know how to build a faster Mac Pro that would offer faster GPU performance than the high performance cards that can be installed in the current Mac Pro.  As well as offer an Apple Silicon Mac Pro that meets or exceeds the 1.5TB RAM option in the current Mac Pro.  Apple isn't going to release a Mac Pro with slower GPU performance just to put Apple Silicon in it.  And the RAM limit of 128GB of the M1 Ultra would be embarrassing compared to the 1.5TB limit of the current Mac Pro.  

And for the estimated rumored price of $3,000, the world will say, NOPE.  This is vaporware that no one wants.

A few years ago, Six Flags Magic Mountain had VR goggles for The Revolution rollercoaster.  You had the option of wearing them for an enhanced virtual ride experience.  Didn't last long.  Why?  No one wanted to wear them.  They got rid of them.  VR was featured in 1994's Disclosure with Michael Douglas.  At the time, it was a cool scene.  28 years later, it still never caught on and has been pretty much non-existent.  This is like AirPower part 2.  Or like the rumor of the Apple-branded TV that never happened.

Apple should just give up on this idea that people would want to walk around with big goggles on their head.