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  1. Belgarathian
    The latest 16" MBPs all benched fine for thermals and the Mac Pro is mint. No idea what the dude you're responding to is on about. Also it's well known that part of the reason for the M1 is because Intel has consistently under delivered on their roadmap, so it's entirely possible that part of the reason for the underwhelming thermal performance in previous generation Macs is at least partially because they were designed for a more efficient chip that never arrived in time for the launch.
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    Or alternatively, Intel has been consistently letting Apple down on the development front so that their hardware doesn't have sufficient cooling capacity. Hence the M1 we have today.
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    Well okay then.
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    I would imagine it's because the use cases for the entry models and air are far more general than the higher-end models, and as this is a first generation product Apple will want to test the performance and stability in the real-world before slowly replacing the whole line up with the M2, and eventually M3. I work for a manufacturing company and we do the same thing, except we'll usually pick a region to release a new product, test it in market for a year or two, and then release it globally.
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    This is what I'm excited about by Apple's vertical integration. The power of the M1, not the power of it's CPU cores, but the utilization of the whole chipset which is something that is typically done very poorly.
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    I'm so excited for reviews to start coming out about the new range of products, and for Anandtech's deep-dive into the M1.
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    More information can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECint
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    Their claims, while ambiguous, probably aren't far from the general truth... I mean here is single thread perf from the A14.... a 5W SoC. Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive
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    I'll bet they built this for internal use and decided to sell it too.
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    Well based on leaked info about Ryzen 5,000, Intel is going to need that double-digit IPC improvement to match Ryzen 5,000 on single-thread performance, if not marginally scrape back their crown.
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    Not really that shocking... Is the Apple TV really that important to them, or would they rather sell more iPhones and iPads that integrate seamlessly with a wide range of devices and own the content that you stream? Previously the stated purpose of the Apple TV was to have access to the main display in most homes, the TV, but they were losing that battle. So by making it an app on every TV and streaming box they get access to a much larger potential market for Apple TV, and give a bigger reason to all the iPhone and iPad buyers to buy them.
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    That IP68 rating....
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    Isn't Xilinx the company they're using to design their MB chipsets? Edit: Nope, never mind. It was ASMedia, but the 570 was mostly done in house with some ASMedia IP.
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    Sure, but in this instance it doesn't really do much since it's not persistent and you still wouldn't have access to encrypted files.
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    I guess the boost clocks aren't impossible... RDNA 2 PS5 clocks are 2.23GHz, so it's conceivable they might be able to push them higher.
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    So all of your long-term problems are moot... They're filled with an inert gas, Nitrogen which helps with longevity and will previous fires They're not deployed in shipping channels, but there is a small potential for smaller craft and fishermen to cause damage however depending on the local authorities these are usually marked as no-go zones. Similar to where fiber and power cables make land. True, but you'd need some very expensive and specialised equipment to do so. Also you'd know pretty quickly once someone unplugged your sever, certainly enough time to get someone to respond to site before they'd made away with your container. You don't maintain them.... You drop them in the ocean and pull them up a few years later. Any failures that occur are accounted for and compensated for in software I guess? Or there is more redundancy? Also most hardware is replaced regularly anyway, so you'd pull the container up, slide in the new racks and cables, and put the container back down. Corrosion wouldn't be an issue, it would take decades for corrosion to do enough damage.
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    I prefer the super branding. It's clearer for consumers.
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    So according to the contents of Apple's clapback, Tim sent the following e-mail before updating the Google Playstore and App Store apps to include direct payment methods. Also can we appreciate for a second that Tim Sweeney has 0 skills in contract management and that he signed off an e-mail to Apple C-Suite with ""... Apple is not willing to make changes necessary to allow us to provide android customers..." Souce: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1296918541627793411/photo/1
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    No... I can't be bothered, and I suspect that you can't be either. Yeah, I'd agree with that statement.
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    Quality is not the word you want to use, quality to you means reliability and durability. To me it means higher resolution, better contrast ratios, peak brightness, darker blacks, full array back lighting, and refresh rates. So I would argue that quality has improved over the years even though the durability has decreased. Reliability IMO has also improved as early touch screens were finicky and had a tendency to work intermittently.
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    Agreed, but equally if someone was going to offer me the indestructible crappy touch screens from 2003 or a modern phone that I need to spend $20 on a protector for, I'd take today's phones all-day every-day.
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    We all use glass screen protectors of which we've broken plenty, but the only screen that got destroyed was my brother's when he ran over it with a tractor.
  23. Belgarathian
    iPhone... Mum 6S+ - History: 3GS Dad 7+ - History: 6, 4+, 3GS Brother 7+ - History: 4+ Partner X Me Xr - History: X, 7+, 6 Not an iPhone, but I still daily drive an iPad Pro 1st gen
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    So what you’re wanting is to have Apple shoulder the cost of curating the App Store, payment processing, hosting and distribution, and development? I’m having trouble following your train of thought. You want a free market place to do what you want, don’t want the end user negatively effected, and want Apple’s App Store to remain profitable but you’re not suggesting how they do so? What if they made every App Store download cost $10 as a one-off fixed fee, would that work?
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    You can, Apple isn't preventing you from doing so. Apple will just take a 30% cut. Crunchyroll offer this option as a premium over subscribing through their website to cover some of the cost.
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