| A high spec desktop from today has 32 3.7Ghz cores that 1 to 1 spank apple silicons 4 fast cores 32GB - 1TB of RAM and GBps of access up to TBs of storage or slower access to 10s of TB. It can use 1000W if need be and active cooling. Claims that Apple is going to blow the rest of the market away usually revolve around - Careful choice of chips usually involving only apple hardware running less than current generation hardware in thermally constrained situations - Pretending that AMD doesn't exist - Pretending that both Intel's slump in progress and Apple's progress are permanent unchangeable trajectories rather than the current status. - Pretending that we can anticipate a fixed factor improvement over a given time based on changing power envelope. The just add power argument that suggests that future desktop chips will n times faster based on having n times the power and cooling an oversimplification an apple engineer is unlikely to make. You haven't made this one of course you think they will be able to blow away the 1000 watt desktop in 7 Watts. Which is more interesting yet. - Pretending that a favorable microbenchmark chosen primary because it reflects desired reality rather than applicability proves not only anything about real world performance but everything. The 2022 iphone still wouldn't make a great computer and the Apple atrix if it were to come to pass would still require you to buy hardware that is liable to be nearly as expensive to make and as bulky as a macbook for a worse experience. Why would a premium buyer want that? Can you imagine Apple trying to make a laptop with a phone sticking out of it cool? Sliding it into something would be problematic for cooling. The sheer uncoolness is probably even more fatal than the performance. |