Actually, Intel must be really, really, really nervous. All those ads remind me of the Blackberry ads making fun of the iPhone. Intel should move to ARM, as Apple has done. The writing is on the wall.
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Intel Launches Heavily Biased 'PC vs. Mac' Comparison Website
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80% or so of all PCs have Intel chips in them. So yeah, they are very interested in promoting PC ecosystem.
Strange, aren't these ads more reminiscent of the Apple's own Mac vs PC ads? Perhaps you are too young to be aware of those.
Proof that people will do anything for money? Hmm...
I like to think that there is a high amount that I'd require to do outrageous crap, but who knows. No one has offered...
I like to think that there is a high amount that I'd require to do outrageous crap, but who knows. No one has offered...
Is not it ironic? A lot of people here were claiming that Apple was slow to release new models because of Intel delays. Now these are Apple own delays. Going forward one can't blame anyone but Apple for any delays.
I found a video on YT about the AARD Code in Chicago. Yeah, Microsoft was pretty pathetic too...
Who are "they"? Intel of advertising agency? Would you be surprised if the latter used a Mac?
so i work with PCs, Macs, laptops, desktops, ipads, phones.
my home "work" laptop is foldable 2-in-1 that sits on the desk and never had the touchscreen functions used.
why use a fat finger to poke and mess up the screen with prints?
similarly, work desktop monitors, don't want, need, miss not being touch screens.
mac laptops, sometimes think touching would be OK especially when you jump between iPad and MacBook.
maybe the device needs to be in your hands or on your lap to feel like it needs touch. on a desk, nope.
the lines are blurry, the OS is getting that way too.
my MacBook Pro does have a touchbar and i do occasionally use it. i like it reconfigures buttons. and provides visual sliders for brightness and volume. essential? no.
but keeping touch to Ipad/iPhone does seen like a natural divide.
i do like the Pencil on iPads. keeps screen cleaner and interacts well.
an iPad mini Pro? time for more screen and modern design.
my home "work" laptop is foldable 2-in-1 that sits on the desk and never had the touchscreen functions used.
why use a fat finger to poke and mess up the screen with prints?
similarly, work desktop monitors, don't want, need, miss not being touch screens.
mac laptops, sometimes think touching would be OK especially when you jump between iPad and MacBook.
maybe the device needs to be in your hands or on your lap to feel like it needs touch. on a desk, nope.
the lines are blurry, the OS is getting that way too.
my MacBook Pro does have a touchbar and i do occasionally use it. i like it reconfigures buttons. and provides visual sliders for brightness and volume. essential? no.
but keeping touch to Ipad/iPhone does seen like a natural divide.
i do like the Pencil on iPads. keeps screen cleaner and interacts well.
an iPad mini Pro? time for more screen and modern design.
The M1 absolutely does translate to real world performance to the point where I think the benchmarks actually understate how fast it feels. Things just happen instantly on it, and going back to even a 16” MBP from my 13” M1 feels torturous now. I also have a Ryan 5000 series desktop and the M1 benchmarks faster than that in everything except graphics.
The pro and desktop Apple silicon machines are going to absolutely slay x86, Intel knows it and they are ******** bricks.
The pro and desktop Apple silicon machines are going to absolutely slay x86, Intel knows it and they are ******** bricks.
An actor making money doing commercials? Outrageous! Are you sure he knows what Mac or PC is? Are you sure he knew it back when he did Mac vs PC commercials? A piece of advice: never believe what the actors say in commercials.
Intel is losing to AMD and losing to even an ARM chip. AMD has been superior to Intel for a few years now and with the Ryzen 5000 series overtook Intel on everything even gaming, even the Intel 11x series rocket lake is already behind still vs the 5000 series in pretty much everything and embarrassingly even their older chips like like the 9900k perform ever so slightly better in some things which is just really embarrassing for a product two generations old.
Intel is charging a ridiculous amount of money for an 8 core 11700k let alone the 11900k that competes with a 12 core 5900x on price and that uses less power, runs cooler and has much better gaming/workstation performance and is even cheaper when had at MSRP!
We've already seen the 11700k benches and the 11900k is only about a 100Mhz spec bump, that's it and Intel wants $200 more for it, Intels lost it 😄
AMD has a small share as their chips before Ryzen were absolute crap so of course Intel has had massive dominance until now, the last time they were on top was back in the Athlon 64/X2 days so Intel has been the best performing chips until Ryzen for nearly 10yrs. Not to mention all the bullying and bribery Intel has done over the years to keep AMD out of everything that they can for which they've been fined for.
I'm certainly no CPU fanboy of any brand and have even avoided AMD myself until the 5000 series as I built my PC purley for gaming and that's the only thing Intel had a lead on until now and even then just barley, so I was running many generation of Intel right up until the 9900k before I switched it for a Ryzen 5950x and have had zero issues.
They need to take their own advice and “get real” knowing that M series poses a serious threat to their business and the workhorse processors aren’t even out yet.
Strange behavior, especially since they already engaged in strange criticism of Apple in recent months and weeks and I assumed they'd pull back. The new Intel CEO took a swipe at Apple practically on his first day, calling them a "lifestyle company".
Now, I strongly dislike Apple (the Google News app on Android featured this article in my feed). But it's strange behavior on Intel's part given their profound and longstanding lack of execution in silicon, you know, their core business. Apple's execution with the M1 and with the iPhone A-series chips has been incredibly impressive. So impressive that I'm scientifically curious how their team does it, in terms of how they work, use their brains, communicate, what tools they use, etc. (I have the same scientific curiosity about how TSMC executes so much better than Intel and Samsung.)
I'm a social scientist and I'm just fascinated by both Apple's execution and Intel's bizarre multi-year stall on new process nodes. I thought it was telling that Apple's chip engineers refused to relocate to the ridiculous spaceship HQ with the ridiculous open office physical work environment. They insisted on working like adults, and being maximally productive, keeping their real offices. But of course real offices can't be the secret.
Intel has been sitting at 14nm for what, seven years? It's been a minute. 10nm exists, but it's still not in full swing, and has yet to deliver on its promise. It looks like it's taking several generations of 10nm to even get to significant performance gains over 14nm. They're now at Gen 3 or so with Tiger Lake, with the "SuperFin" design. But the new desktop chips they rolled out this week are still 14nm, and it's not clear when Intel will actually deliver a significant advance to desktop. "Enhanced SuperFin" is supposed to be coming this year, maybe to desktop, but it's 10nm and I'm not sure how good it will be. They're struggling just to fab this 10nm node when TSMC is already a node ahead (their 7nm is comparable to Intel's 10nm, so I count their 5nm and 3nm as beyond Intel now). When will Intel release their delayed 7nm node? They're struggling so much at 10nm that I don't know if that company will ever again release a big node shrink, will ever have a successful new node that gives users a major advance. It's not just that Moore's Law is over. I think Intel might actually be done. We'll see.
Now, I strongly dislike Apple (the Google News app on Android featured this article in my feed). But it's strange behavior on Intel's part given their profound and longstanding lack of execution in silicon, you know, their core business. Apple's execution with the M1 and with the iPhone A-series chips has been incredibly impressive. So impressive that I'm scientifically curious how their team does it, in terms of how they work, use their brains, communicate, what tools they use, etc. (I have the same scientific curiosity about how TSMC executes so much better than Intel and Samsung.)
I'm a social scientist and I'm just fascinated by both Apple's execution and Intel's bizarre multi-year stall on new process nodes. I thought it was telling that Apple's chip engineers refused to relocate to the ridiculous spaceship HQ with the ridiculous open office physical work environment. They insisted on working like adults, and being maximally productive, keeping their real offices. But of course real offices can't be the secret.
Intel has been sitting at 14nm for what, seven years? It's been a minute. 10nm exists, but it's still not in full swing, and has yet to deliver on its promise. It looks like it's taking several generations of 10nm to even get to significant performance gains over 14nm. They're now at Gen 3 or so with Tiger Lake, with the "SuperFin" design. But the new desktop chips they rolled out this week are still 14nm, and it's not clear when Intel will actually deliver a significant advance to desktop. "Enhanced SuperFin" is supposed to be coming this year, maybe to desktop, but it's 10nm and I'm not sure how good it will be. They're struggling just to fab this 10nm node when TSMC is already a node ahead (their 7nm is comparable to Intel's 10nm, so I count their 5nm and 3nm as beyond Intel now). When will Intel release their delayed 7nm node? They're struggling so much at 10nm that I don't know if that company will ever again release a big node shrink, will ever have a successful new node that gives users a major advance. It's not just that Moore's Law is over. I think Intel might actually be done. We'll see.
Other than at Sun, cpu engineers have cubicles, not offices
(Also: Moore’s law isn’t over)
The Mac — no contest!
I'm biased, but the proof is in the pudding. Windows is so disconnected, out of touch and fragmented like Android. The "I'm a Mac" guy clearly is a sell-out and is looking for his next big pay cheque because the Mac pretty much sells itself. I was a Windows user for fifteen years and the Mac for nine years and has been just blissful to use.
The more I think about it:
Intel is now competing with Apple!!
that is a huge compliment!!
Intel is now competing with Apple!!
that is a huge compliment!!
Delays with M1 based Macs (all sorts of those). Many people do not want to buy Intel-based Macs and have to wait for M1 models which are not coming (not fast enough).
OK, so Intel never liked their former and current business partner. Maybe this will be an endearing approach when Intel becomes a real minority underdog.
Switching to AS doesn’t influence these points. What it has done is drastically improve performance and efficiency. And Intel is so far behind it’s hard to see them in the rearview selfie cam.
Switching to AS doesn’t influence these points. What it has done is drastically improve performance and efficiency. And Intel is so far behind it’s hard to see them in the rearview selfie cam.
