Seems the Ryzen 9 4900 HS can fit into small laptops, yet it outperforms the intel i9 8-core processors even in big gaming laptops. Let‘s hope Apple does not make the same mistake they did with the Mac Pro and puts the 8-core AMD cpu inside the 14 inch Macbook pro.
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14 inch Macbook Pro > 16 inch Macbook Pro
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Apple won’t be putting AMD CPU’s in anything for a long time if ever.
ARM will come before AMD.
ARM will come before AMD.
Agreed. Apple is a very secretive company and has from the beginning wanted to control their destiny end-to-end. They will go ARM or another Apple owned and controlled CPU. This goes back to the days of Jobs and "Project Sand". Where silicon went in one side of the factory and computers came out the other side. All owned and controlled by Apple.
Why?
Please expound on your reasoning. I have no idea, and I don't care one way or another but the fact remains the latest version of macOS has AMD code, so it may be closer then you think
Only some Core i9 processors are superior to the Ryzen 9 4900HS. For example, the desktop i9 9900K. it is approximately 25% faster in Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core). Keep in mind that Ryzen is a laptop processor.
Still, Apple doesn’t care, and we will be getting the Intel and then ARM later this year/next year. Why would they switch to AMD for only one year, especially considering most of their consumers don’t care at all?
If Apple doesn’t, they are making the same mistake they did with the Mac Pro. There is no point going for Intel nowadays.
ARM is not an option as most apps do not support ARM but X86. And I highly doubt they will port their software to ARM.
I’m not sure why anyone wants to run iPhone or iPad apps on their laptop. I’m sure as hell not buying an ARM Macbook Pro.
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