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I think the lower heat density of ARM, and the increasing heat of AMD and Intel is another interesting point. AMD and Intel are racing to smaller manufacturing
by pier25 6y ago
I think the lower heat density of ARM, and the increasing heat of AMD and Intel is another interesting point.
AMD and Intel are racing to smaller manufacturing processes that inevitably will increase heat density.
Today the most powerful laptops are those huge PC gaming bricks which of course are much more powerful than any MBP. This is only going to get worse as heat density increases, at least for demanding applications (gaming, 8k video editing, vfx, etc).
By moving to ARM, Apple will be able to offer much more performant laptops in a much smaller form factor which will only differentiate Macs even more from the PC world. At least in theory.
If this works I wouldn't be surprised if PC laptops moved to ARM too a couple of years later.
- harpratap 6y ago> If this works I wouldn't be surprised if PC laptops moved to ARM too a couple of years later Hasn't PC world ALREADY started the transition to ARM? Snapdragon based laptops already started shipping with SD835, Microsoft already has Windows S for such ARM laptops and many OEMs are already making experimental foldable ARM based devices that can take advantage of these small chips. Apple would be just retro-fitting their ARM chips in the shell of Macbooks 2 years too late.
- pier25 6y ago> Hasn't PC world ALREADY started the transition to ARM? Sure there are some ARM Windows devices but AFAIK this is not really a trend to moving away from Intel/AMD. We'll see tomorrow, but it seems Apple intends to move all their laptops to ARM, not just the smaller/cheaper ones.
- int_19h 6y agoSurface Pro X is not a smaller/cheaper device, either.