This is called price gouging and it is cancer that eats through the AAPL product line. Instead of providing consumers with the best experience possible, AAPL will wring every dollar from those that don't want 2010s style configs.
I guess with this argument you could also question whether a yearly refresh is really necessary or required (other than it being a total money grab by Apple) …..and perhaps a refresh every other year with significant improvements make more sense.
Love these predictions from Mayan calendar.
Did you watch the presentation? Every slide they compared it to M2.
It's all relative. Relative to the base level/Pro chips? Maybe. Relative to an Intel laptop? No, not even close. Relative to an Intel + GPU laptop? Hahaha.
Because Apple’s top of the line is a complete joke. They made the Mac Pro ridiculous. And this is someone with M1 and M2 Ultras. They need something more at the high end.
So when somebody is complaining how unpractical dongles are you suggest starting to carry a cable that is many meters long?
Hardware raytracing and mesh shading. That's the big differentiator.
Forgetting dongles doesn't make them unpractical. Wire is bigger, seems easier to NOT forget.
This article is actually good at detecting people who never read past the headline.
Fair enough; although I think most buyers just see “f aster, longer battery life” and don’t care about the details of teh specifications or how Apple gopt there.
Still matters in Illustrator. That app is still single core, partly because bezier transformations can't be spread out across multiple cores, or so I recall. it's just one math problem or something... can't break it up. Hence why even now, it's far from impossible to make that program stall out. A lot of designers are in Illustrator 90% of their day, so this metric really does matter to them.
