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Intel Launches Heavily Biased 'PC vs. Mac' Comparison Website
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Thank you intel for speeding up the ARM transition.
The classic laptop form factor is actually pretty great if you want something portable.
By necessity, no convertible will ever be quite as sturdy.
Apple chose them when Intel were well ahead of the competition. Now they're not.
This is so true. One of my work colleagues bought a 2020 MacBook Air. She complained of not being able to use it and it being ‘too complicated’. She returned it and bought a £300 windows laptop. This laptop was made of plastic, had only 4GB of ram and had a mechanical hard drive. However she felt this was a better computer than her MacBook Air.
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Are you acting dumb on purpose? 🤔
Intel is NOT a "PC manufacturer".
NOTHING Intel is advertising here has anything to do with their chips specifically (or at all).
The "I'm a Mac" ads were basically "David vs. Goliath".
These ads are basically "Goliath vs. David".
I agree with both sides and I’ll explain why: maybe intel was superior when Mac adopted the chips, maybe meanwhile Macs were getting slower because of Intel lately. But I think it’s not only because of the last, I think the transition has to do with the Apple initial plan for full hardware and software integration, I mean that’s what makes the iPhone an iPhone and the Mac a Mac. Who knows, maybe last Intel chips go well with PCs
When an ASUS 2in1 breaks after 2 years of intended hinge-use, it's not a big deal nobody cares go buy something new ASUS has forgotten about your particular model long ago.
Would Apple have a 2in1 and the hinge breaks, it would make international headlines. How could they be so irresponsible?
I get why they don't try.
Would Apple have a 2in1 and the hinge breaks, it would make international headlines. How could they be so irresponsible?
I get why they don't try.
None of us have anything against Intel and have always pulled for them. But It’s 2021, and all of us using the 2018 iPad Pro were blown away by the performance of Apple silicon even back then.
Badly thought out PR doesn’t change the fact that Intel is not keeping up with the competition and starting to lose customers to AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm and Apple.
Intel has been the market leader, and focusing on PR does not compensate the fact that their leadership has been failing. It highlights it.
Badly thought out PR doesn’t change the fact that Intel is not keeping up with the competition and starting to lose customers to AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm and Apple.
Intel has been the market leader, and focusing on PR does not compensate the fact that their leadership has been failing. It highlights it.
It is only natural that any companies ads are heavily biased toward their own products. Apple's ads for their new M1-processor are although heavily biased. Why doesn't Apple mention that their machines still lack of connectivity and are not upgadable like most Windows-notebooks are?
Go PC!….. Go! ……...Go Away!
Go Modems! ..Go!.. Go Away!
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Only me, who smells Samsung marketing tactic?
The sad story that they spent not thousands, but millions on this “masterpiece” of marketing ……. . They better invest in R&D.
Costco has had zero commercials and their parking lot is full. I do not say if they are good or bad, but they can have successful business model without “I’m Costco, not a SamsClub”.
Nothing against Intel, but this commercial doesn’t sell me PC and I want to see at least someone who bought PC based on the commercial.
Go Modems! ..Go!.. Go Away!
)Only me, who smells Samsung marketing tactic?
The sad story that they spent not thousands, but millions on this “masterpiece” of marketing ……. . They better invest in R&D.
Costco has had zero commercials and their parking lot is full. I do not say if they are good or bad, but they can have successful business model without “I’m Costco, not a SamsClub”.
Nothing against Intel, but this commercial doesn’t sell me PC and I want to see at least someone who bought PC based on the commercial.
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They could, but you and I know these "drawbacks" are not going to apply to the majority of laptop users out there.
Apple is showing the benefits of the M1 as a chip. What exactly is Intel doing in their ads?
More about pc's/Windows if anything. Intel are locked into this category.
Also who knows what Apple will do soon? The M1 ARM Macs have brought back a large interest in laptops and larger devices again.
Also like others I would say go AMD instead of Intel if going Windows. Much better Perf/Watt/Heat/Price.
Are you acting pedantic on purpose? 🤔
I never claimed Intel were a PC manufacturer, the example was refering to Apple attacking PC manufacturers, and now getting a taste of their own medicine back. However whilst Intel are not a PC manufacturer, as you say the ads are nothing to do with the chips, therefore Intel are in these ads representing PC manufacturing and fighting that corner, thus for metaphorical purposes they can be lumped together as one unit.
Stop painting "I'm a Mac" as some sort of noble saintly endeavor, it was one company (Apple) distorting facts and being intentionally vindictive towards PCs to steal market share, admittedly in a clever way.
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I think of the M1 processor like a new automobile motor in a car. It is great that It has 1200 horse power, but if you don't have the transmission right, the steering right, the braking system right. It is just a so so car with a big engine stuck under the hood. All parts of the car need to be working correctly, not just looking at the large motor in that car and saying wow look how much horse power that car has is pointless.
I mean they could have come up with a far better acronym. It is like Committee to Re Elect the President aka CREP.
Designs are far ahead of production. Apple designed those computers based on what Intel's roadmap was. When Apple came knocking they found Intel had a flat tire. Then they found the package was so buggy that is should have came with a. can of RAID.
So this isn't really about Intel and their chips? It's about the poor, poor PC manufacturers and good boy Intel is helping them? 🥺
It's about Marketing, Money, and Market share.
In my view a product should be sold on its own merits without bad-mouthing your competition. It was ugly when Apple did it back in the day, and it's ugly now when Intel are doing it.
I have never seen anyone (that's not in a commercial) use "tent-mode" on a laptop/2-in-1. All of my engineers that whiteboard on their notebooks and 2-in-1 machines, do it in standard clamshell-keyboard-facing-up configuration so that they can access the keyboard and touchpad if need be.
I have two guys on my staff of 1000 that use their convertible in tablet mode, and that's to do site-surveys - and that's only when they forget their Ekahau kit that has all the stuff in it.
No its a command. You use forward slashes for a switch when executing a command or exe in command prompt.