The issue for me is that the contingent of people who are simply chasing specs and what’s next are trying to talk from some place of authority about Apple’s CPU business and simply trying to talk down a product that literally is not even shipping. I assume they do it for attention or to simply stir the pot as it were. Or perhaps they’re jealous that they can’t afford one or are STILL bitter that Apple kicked Intel to the curb and didn’t choose AMD.
A lot of people simply cannot accept that Apple could catch and surpass Intel and AMD and be a legitimate threat to the x86 hegemony that we have all been held hostage by for years and with which a sick sort of Stockholm Syndrome has developed. I grew up with and used professionally 6502, 68K, PowerPC, Intel, DEC Alpha, Sun SPARC and SGI MIPS. Intel was just one of many. It seems a sizable chunk of people here have had zero experience outside of Intel.
My beef with the poster is that 5nm is the current state of the art and until 3nm is shipping in volume, it doesn’t matter how old the SoC is that Apple is using. The process size has very little bearing on the underlying goodness or badness of the Max or Ultra. The process size doesn’t matter if it does the job. We do not worship at the altar of process size or ports or form factor. The Studio is simply a tool and those who know how to best use this tool are going to create some outstanding stuff.
Too many here are chasing technology for technology’s sake. Are they building anything worthwhile or are they just chasing their tails? Pretty sure I already know the answer.
