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This has always been true though. Desktop upgrade cycles are not that fast, and longer than smartphones. Only processor transitions such as PowerPC to Intel an
by lapcat 4y ago
This has always been true though. Desktop upgrade cycles are not that fast, and longer than smartphones.
Only processor transitions such as PowerPC to Intel and Intel to Apple Silicon give a good reason to upgrade within a few years.
- AnthonyMouse 4y agoThat's kind of the idea. But there are more than just instruction set transitions. The difference between the Pentium 4 and Core 2 or Bulldozer and Zen were stark. Even the Ryzen 7000 series has AVX-512, DDR5, PCIe 5.0 etc. It's frequently twice as fast as the 3000 series from 3 years earlier. The M2 isn't that kind of thing.
- zitterbewegung 4y agoIf the m2 came with LPDDR6 or faster and card support or something similar I would agree with you. The only new advantage for m2 that I have seen is Wi-Fi 6E and bluetooth 5.2 20 percent more efficiency and speed and an option for the MacBook Pro 14.2 and 16.2 to have 96 of ram which isn’t worth it.
- lapcat 4y agoThis is a Mac discussion, and you're discussing non-Mac processors. When have Macs received a massive processor upgrade in 3 years that hasn't been an architecture transition?