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I would like people arguing the opposite to define "revolutionary". The combination of the performance increase with the power and thermal efficiency in the fi
by _jal 6y ago
I would like people arguing the opposite to define "revolutionary".
The combination of the performance increase with the power and thermal efficiency in the first release for a laptop is the sort of improvement we haven't seen in a very long time.
> I'm not seeing that this makes anything fundamentally different
I guess we'll see. $1000 dollars buys a lot more laptop utility than it did a month ago, and the abrupt availability of a laptop with higher performance with far better battery life than anything else on the market has certainly gotten a lot of people's attention.
I'm not buying one[1], but I'm really curious to see the M2.
[1] I'm really torn, the atrophy of the Unix side of the OS and the increasing lockdown has frustrated me a lot. But the option of just running MacOS as a hypervisor that happens to run Photoshop may be just fine for me... I'll decide when the current machine dies.
- wpietri 6y agoSure. To me evolutionary generally means quantitative improvements in expected dimensions. Revolutionary requires overturning some existing order. E.g., the American Revolution replaced the existing government. I'd call the original Mac revolutionary, in that it totally changed how people interacted with computers. Laptops were revolutionary. Smartphones were revolutionary. A new generation of laptop that runs somewhat longer without plugging in is not revolutionary. People will be doing the same things.