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same reason they spend huge amounts of money on rolexes when seikos work better (the tech crowd isn't immune from vanity).

throwaway27448 13d ago
If you seriously think apple products are nothing but a status item, you're deluding yourself and probably have been for decades.
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- _hugerobots_ 13d ago
  This 1000%. Data centres don't equate to medium sized labs and businesses. A stack of Macs is up and running without digging trenches, an electrician on staff and a department of PhDs to justify the spend.
  - bigyabai 13d ago
    It's likely that a stack of Macs will draw more power for slower prefill/decode than equivalently priced Nvidia GPUs. If power efficient inference is the goal, Macs are a non-starter.
    - _hugerobots_ 13d ago
      So if it isn't a comparative ability, now it's a power cost issue? This reads like goal post moving.
- mathisfun123 13d ago
  If you seriously think apple cares about anything other than cell phones, you're deluding yourself and probably have been for decades.
  - tom_ 13d ago
    They've been selling phones for less than 20 years at this point? Though I suppose 1.9 is not equal to 1, so it gets the plural.
  - throwaway27448 13d ago
    ...did you mean profit? I don't think they're manufacturing iphones just on the hope they delight you. This is also true of Google et al. I don't get these weird parasocial emotional attachments/beefs people have with brands. Talk to a therapist.
    - mathisfun123 13d ago
      brother my point is they don't care about their product offerings outside of their phones. this post/thread is about one of their product offerings which is not a phone which is inferior to their competitors'. simple.
      - selectodude 13d ago
        My M1 Pro MBP is 6 years old and continues to be the best computer I own, so if that’s Apple not trying, god help everybody else once they do.
        mathisfun123 13d ago
        Jesus Christ reading comprehension has completely fallen off a cliff - we're talking specifically about GPU performance here. Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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throwaway27448 13d ago

If you seriously think apple products are nothing but a status item, you're deluding yourself and probably have been for decades.

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_hugerobots_ 13d ago
This 1000%. Data centres don't equate to medium sized labs and businesses. A stack of Macs is up and running without digging trenches, an electrician on staff and a department of PhDs to justify the spend.
- bigyabai 13d ago
  It's likely that a stack of Macs will draw more power for slower prefill/decode than equivalently priced Nvidia GPUs. If power efficient inference is the goal, Macs are a non-starter.
  - _hugerobots_ 13d ago
    So if it isn't a comparative ability, now it's a power cost issue? This reads like goal post moving.
mathisfun123 13d ago
If you seriously think apple cares about anything other than cell phones, you're deluding yourself and probably have been for decades.
- tom_ 13d ago
  They've been selling phones for less than 20 years at this point? Though I suppose 1.9 is not equal to 1, so it gets the plural.
- throwaway27448 13d ago
  ...did you mean profit? I don't think they're manufacturing iphones just on the hope they delight you. This is also true of Google et al. I don't get these weird parasocial emotional attachments/beefs people have with brands. Talk to a therapist.
  - mathisfun123 13d ago
    brother my point is they don't care about their product offerings outside of their phones. this post/thread is about one of their product offerings which is not a phone which is inferior to their competitors'. simple.
    - selectodude 13d ago
      My M1 Pro MBP is 6 years old and continues to be the best computer I own, so if that’s Apple not trying, god help everybody else once they do.
      - mathisfun123 13d ago
        Jesus Christ reading comprehension has completely fallen off a cliff - we're talking specifically about GPU performance here. Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth?
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