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> No, we are nowhere near close to having a full-powered laptop in a form factor that could be worn on the face. I don't see any reasonable chance it will happe
by ninkendo 3y ago
> No, we are nowhere near close to having a full-powered laptop in a form factor that could be worn on the face. I don't see any reasonable chance it will happen in the next 10 years, for example.
Um.
The Vision Pro runs an M2, the same processor they have in the best laptops Apple makes. I think it’s a huuuuge reach to just assume without having used the device, that it just must be visibly slow compared to running a modern laptop. Most of the pixel pushing is done on a GPU and is totally independent of what limits you to be able to run lots of apps. The M2 is already massively powerful for a typical laptop workload.
> You might be able to display 9 huge windows in the AR space, but you will probably not be able to run 9 different programs at the same time
What are you basing this on? You realize that iOS runs the same kernel as macOS, right? It has supported “multitasking” in the sense of “multiple processes” since day one. It’s just that iOS has intentionally limited the UI so that only one app is focused, and it eagerly kills (for the purposes of saving battery) apps that you’ve tabbed away from, with a lot of help from the software to make sure apps can persist their state and quickly recover. The limitations of multitasking on iOS is not due to there not being enough CPU, it’s to save battery. And Apple’s laptops use the same CPU, and have the best battery life in the industry, so I don’t see how you can arrive at the conclusion that a device with the same specs as their best laptops just obviously can’t multitask.
- kanetw 3y agoYeah. Your average U-CPU (what you'd get in a 13" or 15" ultrabook, and what we use) has a TDP of 9-28W. That's well within the range of what a modern phone can boost to.