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Intel Ad for 'World's Best Processor' Features a MacBook Pro
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Intel has been under fire for years for trotting out the mildest updates to their products, while pushing up prices and seeming to ignore the thermal issues associated with their current lineup.
My i9 MacBook Pro is a disgrace, it gets so hot and so loud at the drop of a hat, while my fanless MBA with the M1 performs very well (in some cases better), without getting hot, loud, or sucking it’s battery dry in record time.
I thought those keys would get stuck? So, in fact, you just have to wait for Intel's next CPU generations (with some more "+").
Hello, Intel started this one. When the M1 came out, Apple only compared models with it to its models with Intel chips (how else could they differentiate them?), they didn't make it a pure chip agains chip battle. No bashing whatsoever. Intel alone took out the ax and swung it swiftly – on their own foot.
The laptop used in the image is not a MacBook. Just zoom in on the image and see the USB, HDMI and circular power ports on the side, very different characteristics from MacBooks.
What are you looking at?
I see USB-C/Thunderbolt ports... and a freakin' TouchBar.
You can also see the Mac icons on the Command Key and the Option Key in your closeup image.
Here's another stock image from the same shoot... click to zoom in:
No, but this is like sending flowers to your crush in the hope that something nice happens someday...
Those are clearly 2 USB-c ports and an audio jack, just like a MacBook Pro! It has already been shown (and linked) that Intel used stock photos. We are able to see the original photo, and we actually have a series of different photos from different angles... it is clearly a MacBook Pro!
I think it's important to realise intel is a big company with thousands of employees, not a single individual with feelings. The commercial world is ruthless, you adapt or you sink. Intel just hasn't innovated as fast as the competition. Then couple this with their recent advertisement campaign where its actually them doing the attacks on apple, they open themselves up to ridicule. If intel don't want to be mocked they shouldn't open themselves up to it by mocking apple.
I don't think you can compare that with how someone may treat their friends etc in real life. I mock intel because they are arrogant and launching the attacks themselves. But I would never treat anyone in my personal circle like that.
i didn't say it was a good ad, i merely questions whether this was a "slip-up" or not.
Along with the keyboard, Touch Bar and stage light issues. Frankly those are bigger issues than the geometry of the processor.
Not to anyone who needed more performance. Intel is awful and its engineers are terrible.
The keyboard was an issue, yes, but had it not been for the mediocre CPU, I probably would’ve jumped on the 16-inch.
Instead, there hasn’t been a great high-end Mac laptop for half a decade, and Intel absolutely is a big factor in that.
Because they intentionally chose thinness over functionality. The fact that the 16 in is a little thicker proves they went too far. Why are there even reputable rumors of restored ports? You can't lay this all at the feet of Intel, considering the broader market where Intel still dominates as well as AMD. If Intel was such a problem, why not switch to the next best thing called AMD, which also makes x86 processors instead of reinventing wheel? Its amazing you missed the forest on this one, where Apple making its own silicon is just part of its on going strategy of making the entire widget. This really not primarily about Intel and performance. Considering the vast majority of users wouldn't notice much of a difference between an M1 and Intel based MacBook Pro for most tasks.
To be fair, AMD doesn’t even have the capacity to fulfill the needs of a company the size of Apple, much less be in a position to challenge Intel. Intel is still leader because they can make WAY more than AMD ever could, not because Intel is doing anything “right”… well, other than just “making more”.
To be fair, AMD doesn’t even have the capacity to fulfill the needs of a company the size of Apple, much less be in a position to challenge Intel. Intel is still leader because they can make WAY more than AMD ever could, not because Intel is doing anything “right”… well, other than just “making more”.
Apple only sells 5 million Macs in a quarter.
Would that really be too much for AMD to handle?
Man... I didn't realize AMD was so small. No wonder I can't buy 5000-series Ryzen chips today!
That’s part of it, but the other part is that Intel was stuck on minor Skylake revisions for years.
AMD’s laptops sucked before Renoir, and by the time Renoir shipped at volume, Apple had already made its choice. No point involving yet another party.
And, “this other company also isn’t doing so hot” isn’t a valid counterargument to Intel doing poorly. Nor is it relevant that there were other benefits to Apple’s choice. Yes, there were. So what? That’s not the topic.
Pretty much. I looked into their financials over the last year and, while there are some misses due to bugs, what it really comes down to is AMD has to work with TSMC to get anything made. This means they have to split up their capacity among all their product lines. When you consider that a good chunk of that isn’t even CPU’s, that shows you how strapped they are for CPU capacity.
If they had Intel’s capacity, Intel would really have something to worry about. As it is, they could build a chip that beats Intel by a large margin and will still be outsold by Intel because a system you can buy beats a system that’s backlogged by a number of months anyday.
Not to mention that AMD doesn’t make anything any more. TSMC makes their chips, and we already know TSMC has enough capacity for Apple.
If Apple wanted to buy chips from AMD, AMD could use capacity already allocated by TSMC to Apple’s chips.
Of course, there are lots of good reasons for Apple not to buy anything from AMD.
Even if Apple gave AMD billions of dollars?
It’s all silly. If Apple wanted chips from AMD, the way it would work is that Apple would contract with TSMC directly for the capacity, and AMD would provide the gdsii to TSMC. Apple would pay AMD for design services, IP associated with the design, etc. It wouldn’t pay AMD full price for the chips, because the cost of making the chips would be borne directly by Apple.
Ah! Good point Apple’s in such a good position with TSMC, I’m sure they could finagle a deal beneficial to AMD with TSMC