jonamac

elijahg said:

jonamac said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

jonamac said:

Is there any logic to that headline whatsoever? What about this iMac is a clear sign of intel support going away???

This is addressed in the text.

Where?!

I wondered the same, nothing really addresses that apart from saying some new features only work on Apple Silicon. The Apple Silicon only features are similar to features on newer versions of iOS only working on the latest generation iPhone, doesn't mean support for the previous generation(s) is going to be dropped imminently.

Very true. Also, this machine is physically identical to the one it replaced save for the SOAC. Nothing this machine tells us is new. If this machine signals the end of Intel support, so did the last one, which we can see did nothing of the kind.

Is there any logic to that headline whatsoever? What about this iMac is a clear sign of intel support going away???

The real showstopper is the battery life. This Razor just hasn’t been built for battery use. At max load, its battery will last 18 minutes*. 18. That’s game over for me. I want to be able to work all afternoon in a coffee shop or library, without power a lot of the time. A 16” MacBook Pro will last a full hour at max load. Scale that back to an average 30% load, which is more realistic, and the MacBook Pro will last 3h20m, The Razor will die after an hour.

Imagine lugging a 70Wh battery around all the time for so little benefit. Taking your laptop from hot desk to hot desk is all this thing is good for. We see this all the time in powerful PC laptops. That’s not smart design, it’s spec padding.

*based on power supply wattage/battery capacity. Laptops usually ship with a power supply just larger than the laptop’s requirements at max load.