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I am not sure if the derogatory tone is fair. This is just example how progress works. Not that long time ago Apple had to be saved by some pennies thrown by Mi
by piokoch 6y ago
I am not sure if the derogatory tone is fair. This is just example how progress works. Not that long time ago Apple had to be saved by some pennies thrown by Microsoft. Not that long time ago Apple was moving from Motorola processors to Intel ones.
There is nothing bad that someone stayed behind. Someone has to stay behind if we want progress. No reason to insult predecessors.
Planc and Dirac weren't making fun of Newton. Minitel was used in France as some simple version of Internet years before Internet was created. Was Minitel bad? Should we make fun of it?
Was Minitel standing in its underwear in front of Internet? Has Dirac stolen Newton pants?
Intel made a lot of great stuff. Now Apple is making great stuff (or, to be precise, TSMC does). Next year someone else is going to make great stuff. Maybe Apple maybe not.
Intel and AMD chips are not that far behind, depending on what benchmark is used, even though they use older 14/10 or 7nm technology.
I also really hate the concept of not being able to upgrade RAM - If I use Mac and I need more RAM I need to throw away my old Apple laptop and buy a new one. So I have to spend way more money, not to mention impact on environment.
So, today, I am still choosing Intel/AMD computer, I can install whatever operating system I wish and upgrade my system to whatever configuration I dream about and I can afford now or in future.
- simias 6y agoI agree with you but I basically filtered that as "typical Mac fanboy noise" and try to search for insightful content which I think this piece has, in spite of its "I have a shrine dedicated to Steve Jobs in my living room" tone.
- zepto 6y agoThe point about being able to upgrade ram or upgrade to whatever you want doesn’t make sense. A ram upgrade will never compensate for a less efficient memory architecture. There is no CPU architecture other than Apple’s that will make your laptop faster because AMD and Intel are thermally limited, so there is nothing to upgrade to. The only situation in which you are right, is if you are talking about a high end desktop tower.
- nix23 6y ago>The point about being able to upgrade ram or upgrade to whatever you want doesn’t make sense. If my program needs 64GB of ram, your 8GB highly efficient "memory architecture" can do nothing about it...you have to know that even my gpu has 16GB alone. But i have to say that 8GB are probably enough for your Chrome Browser.
- formerly_proven 6y agoIt's actually really impressive how well Intel desktop CPUs still do considering they're still made on a (continuously improved) five year old process.
- microtherion 6y ago> Not that long time ago Apple had to be saved by some pennies thrown by Microsoft. Agree largely with the rest of your comment, but this particular event was more than 23 years ago. I'm sure a good number of readers of this thread is younger than that!