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This is one part that's odd for me as well. The other is how everyone seem to act like CPUs like the Ryzens don't matter anymore because they are not ARM. I mea
by immigrantsheep 6y ago
This is one part that's odd for me as well. The other is how everyone seem to act like CPUs like the Ryzens don't matter anymore because they are not ARM. I mean, I get it, this is nice for some usage. I'm in game development and I don't see things like these making me switch anytime soon. 3D animation, game development, gaming, AI, all of this benefit more from really powerful CPU/GPU and don't care much about power consumption. And this is a big user base.
I don't want to sound like I hater (I'm not), and I'm glad something new is happening, but it's not like this going to move suddenly everyone to ARM.
- lowbloodsugar 6y agoOTOH I've spent more money on Switch games this year than any other platform. Meanwhile, two years ago, I returned a Dell because it ran Civ 6 at less than 1 fps, despite its supposedly games focused integrated Vega GPU. My M1 Air manages a solid 60fps, and it's running Civ under Rosetta. I installed Factorio on it and it surprised me with my savegame having been copied over from my PC - it is indistinguishable. I get that neither of these games are Cyberpunk 2077, but most of the games I've enjoyed this year could year could be happily developed on an Air, and once there's a beefier desktop version, I expect even the most demanding level-layout tools will work fine on Apple Silicon. I can see AAA staying intel/nvidia for a long time simply because of tooling, but everyone else, why waste your money? Now, when Apple releases their console...
- immigrantsheep 6y agoI'm really happy for everyone to have the toys they like :) I don't mind/care if people are excited and want to move to the M1 as long as I'm allowed to be happy on my Ryzen/nvidia machine.