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"I'm sure that's fine for terminal usage, but seriously; who out there is going to daily-drive a laptop that has a non-functional GPU?" Then how did Integrated

"I'm sure that's fine for terminal usage, but seriously; who out there is going to daily-drive a laptop that has a non-functional GPU?" Then how did Integrated Graphics sell so well in the broader marketplace? You'd think with their near-useless GPUs that were weaker than M1's software rendering that nobody could use them. Also, whatever about M2 - Apple has structured their hardware to require minimum driver changes on each release. M2 will probably just be a few patches on the core driver, not a rewrite.

smoldesu 5y ago
> You'd think with their near-useless GPUs that were weaker than M1's software rendering that nobody could use them. The point is to delegate rendering away from the GPU, which is obviously a waste of compute no matter how you look at it. Every computer is capable of software rendering (my i5 520m can software-render for crying out loud), but we live in a more civilized age; even weak GPUs do their job to prevent the CPU from being unnecessarily bogged down with a task it's not good at. We do this so your computer doesn't insta-break when you plug in an external display, we do this so that CPU cores don't get pinned when you start scrolling a webpage, we do this because software rendering is bad. It doesn't matter if you're doing it on an i9 12900k or a first-gen Raspberry Pi; the goal is to not waste CPU cycles on it in the first place. This shouldn't even be up for debate in the first place.