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by mg74 314 days ago
Where has the competition caught up? Arent Apple's chips still by far best-in-class from the laptop down to the watch?

Its an honest question, I would love an arm based laptop running NixOS that is competitive with the upcoming M5 Pro's but I dont see it anywhere.

Case in point: Google's newest Google TV box (released this year) is an absolute turd when compared with an 8 year old 4k Apple TV box.
2 comments
izacus 311 days ago
No, they're not. Competition has caught up.

And why are you bloviating about TV boxes in topic about laptop chips?

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TingPing 313 days ago
The main innovation was buying all 3nm production from TSMC. Snapdragon chips on the same node perform as well.
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Jensson 313 days ago
The biggest stunt Apple pulled was making people think this is Apples new CPU designs that created the performance gap and not just buying all the production capacity for next gen fabs.

We used to get that same performance gain every few years just from regular process improvements, but this time Apple made it seem like it was Apple that made the gain and not the general world.

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rogerrogerr 312 days ago
Your argument would be much stronger with one single Amazon link to a non-Apple product that is competitive on price, perf, and thermals.
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