I get that happens with technology, but is it getting that rapid?
Yes, it performs just as well as I got it.
For all I know it may before better than the new one, but I doubt it.
Trust me, I get it. I bought a MacBook Pro 16 in March.
Now the MacBook Pro 13 blows it out of the water.
I hate to say it, but it’s true... this isn’t a result of Apple screwing the customer. This is a result of Intel just not giving a $$!&.
I can prove my point. When Apple released the 1 port MacBook, to me at least, it was very obvious that Apple thought the low power line was going to strive and iterate. Intel just sandbagged with chips that just didn’t meet expectation. You can say what you want of me for saying it, but there it is. I bought a Surface Go 2 fully loaded back in July knowing Apple was going ARM. Guess what... my $800 Surface Go 2 gets so hot that after using it for a few minutes you just don’t want to touch the display. It’s slow.... I’m talking unusable slow... I have no doubt the last iPad Air does laps around it after not starting the race for a couple hours.
It’s not just you, Intel screwed everybody. Do you really think companies weren’t telling Intel “we want something fast, that can last all day” and Intel was just delivering? Does anyone else really think it was just Apple asking for it?
My wife passively watched the Apple Silicon announcement, and she was on her PO$ Dell laptop from work. She heard it doesn’t get hot to the touch, and she looked at me and said “wait, why didn’t you tell me this”. She’s going to get a MacBook Air sooner rather than later. I’m PROBABLY going to take a bath on my MacBook Pro 16 to get an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro 13.
Intel failed everyone. They were suppose to get to 10nm I think what 3 years ago? 4 years ago? They got there when everyone else is on 7nm, and Apple has essentially bought out the entire years production of 5nm.
Here’s another question, one that I’ll pose, because no one else has asked it. Why is Apple able to perform like an i9 that has 8 cores, and can execute theoretically 16 threads, with an SOC with 4 high performance cores, and 4 high efficiency cores? Honest question.
Here’s another question. Why is it every time I’m on a conference call in whatever meeting tool, and if one person, or every person turns on their camera, it sounds like my MacBook Pro is trying to leave earths orbit... why does my MacBook Pro sound like it’s doing the same thing with applications open but nothing is happening.
Trust me, I get it. When you’re use to getting hit in the face for doing everything, and you know Intel is ignoring you while they satisfy AWS and Azure (AWS is all in on ARM), it can feel painful. Every other hardware manufacturer took that, and told everyone to deal with it. Because thats their lot in life.
We can be angry that Apple got out, and we’re still feeling the Intel pain, or we can be happy that because the platform can stand firm on something without a stupid sticker, $$$$ty R&D, and still do our work.
For me, I’m looking at all of the exits, and I’m getting my wife and I out before Intel even says 7no too loud. Because that will be bad too.
