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Lag doesn't appear to be as much of an issue as people are saying: https://wccftech.com/google-st...

For those asking for citation, The first link is the WAAS (windows as as service is the microsoft name) information for businesses, IIRC business deployment is scheduled for first deployment with retail deployment afterwards. WAAS will follow the same model as office 365, it'll likely start as an optional subscription for a year or two before the only option will be the monthly subscription just like office 2019 is the last standalone version after only a few years of 365 existing.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...

The microsoft windows 365 plan, like office 365 will be the first step in the shift:

https://wccftech.com/microsoft...

Other sources without looking too hard:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reportedly told financial analysts at the Build conference in the spring, "We are moving from a product that is perpetual to one that is always up to date. In the past we've always had revenue per license. Going forward we'll have revenue per device, and we'll have revenue per device gross margin."

https://www.informationweek.co...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/g...
https://blog.juriba.com/window...

As you'll note in the links most of the information is in the financial press that the bulk of the public doesn't pay attention to, but what Microsoft promises wall street will occur.

Intel wins the IPCs

Not for very much longer. And for me, like most of us, value is the decider. I'm also finding AMD's thermal performance excellent these days, and I just love how long the sockets last. AM4 really delivered on its future-proof promise.

Uhhh I'm afraid he is right as Nvidia is getting chips made by TMSC which means their money is helping fund TMSC's process which is benefiting AMD.

And I'd say its looking more and more like AMD selling off their fabs when they did was the smart move, as they can now go with whomever has the best process while their former fabs (Global Foundry) has given up on hitting 7nm and appears to be intending to just milk whatever money they can make off their 12nm and 14nm fabs making memory chips and working for smaller players.

Intel has effectively missed it's 10nm die shrink when Samsung and TSMC are on 7nm. Intel better have 5nm in it's back pocket because it's pointless building any 10nm CPU's now (maybe other chips instead.)

These values (14 nm, 10 nm, 7 nm) are not directly comparable. These days, the values seems more like marketing numbers.

Intel does need to focus more on innovation and implementation and less on customer segmentation, though. Intel used to be so far ahead that even an inferior processor design was on par with the competition, due to the advantage in fabrication.

But I fail to see how Intel will fare better with 7nm or 5nm if the problem was purely of physics.

To quote this August article About Intel's 10nm Process Lead:

Since yield issues aren't contagious between process generations, we can expect Intel's 7nm to be on track for the originally stated date.

The thesis of the article is that Intel was the first to attempt Self Aligning Quad Patterning (SAQP), in a "10mm" node that's more aggressive than the current or just getting going maybe Samsung and TMSC "7mm" nodes.

Per the author, Intel's "7mm" node will use EUV, which has its own host of problems, but is a fundamentally different technology, see the above link on pushing 193 nm immersion lithography, vs. using what are very close to being soft X-rays at 13.5 nm (per Wikipedia the X-ray range starts at 10nm). Of course, if Intel's 7nm node expected to get some use out of their 10nm SAQP technology, it still might be in trouble.

Seems to be doing just fine with their venture into 7nm land.

I updated both my Ipad and my Iphone. Both have now been unable to see my 5g connection. Only the 2g is available.

Try a clean install:

https://wccftech.com/clean-ins...

A shortage of cell towers in the mountains? Imagine that.

The issue is not the shortage of cell towers. It’s the fact that I had to restart the device every time I wanted to use it and had signal because the model would be in a bad state from the last time it lost signal and would not do anything whatsoever without a restart. That is not normal behavior. It should gracefully handle the loss and return of service without a restart.

Perhaps you should try a clean install.

https://wccftech.com/clean-ins...

Oh, and just in case they still haven't address the issue of "missing PDFs", I would suggest you save-off any PDFs you have stored in iBooks separately from your iTunes backup. Justin Case.

This isn't for memory or mobile chips as is the case with TSMC process. There's a reason why high power chip majors like nvidia aren't touching the TSMC's PR speak 7nm process with a ten metre pole.

Uh, AMD's next generation, going by the name Zen 2, isn't just on TSMC's 7nm process, it's already done, taped out, in production, and sampling, with benchmarks leaking. For multithreaded/multi-process workloads, it's fast. Very fast.

As stated elsewhere in these comments, server prototypes built around it are being evaluated by all of the major datacenter builders. AMD is slobbering all over themselves. Zen 2 was supposed to compete against Intel's Ice Lake core, which was supposed to be the 10nm coming out this year. AMD expected to be in their usual "just-slightly-slower-than-Intel's-best" position, in their usual "just-slightly-later-than-Intel" timeframe. Then Intel delayed Ice Lake. For a year. TSMC is in volume production of 7nm Zen 2 chips right now. AMD expects to make huge inroads into Intel's 2019 marketshare, and all indications are they will.

Apple products kill people.

What did he do? He sure as HELL didn't get that on the OUTPUT side! It only produces 24 VAC. Barely enough for a good tingle.

Apple products kill people.

AMD's strategy makes sense, they are now concentrating resources on exploiting their Ryzen advantage while starting to develop their brand new Epyc server market. On the GPU side they just continue to bang out parts on the mature 14nm process which gets cheaper the longer they run it. RX 560/570/580 cards remain highly respectable products, giving AMD the luxury of either fattening their gross profit clawing back more market share. They seem to be steering a middle course, with retail prices slowly coming down and market share slowly coming up. The stage is set for a showdown at 7nm in late 2019.

Personally, AMD vs NVidia is a no brainer because:
1) the open source AMD drivers are awesome
2) Vulkan/DX12 are taking over, I don't care about obsolete 3D engines running a bit slower
3) fuck NVidia.

The people who have been waiting for a competitive AMD part grabbed one. After that, the market for AMD parts amongst the gamers was saturated.

You do live in your own fantasy land. One month of retrace and you flip out about it. Earth to you: see the big fat 45% share from this German retailer? That's several times what it was 2 years go. (US figures are near impossible to find, but if similar then Intel is shitting bricks).

The Ryzen refresh just landed and guess what? Higher performance for less money. Tell me who wouldn't want a kickass 2700X for cheap, come on, don't lie. Now AMD has turned around its fortunes in servers too, the first gen Epyc was a hit, they couldn't make enough of them. Second gen is here, it's a huge success, multiple brand name vendors will ship it. New Laptops designs are coming out now on the strength AMD's APUs. Even Intel will ship AMD GPUs now. Talk about endorsement.

AMD's 7nm parts are ramping up, we will see 7nm Ryzens and Threadrippers in 1H19 while Intel is still stuck rebuilding its failed 10nm fabs. Many folks who went Ryzen this year got addicted to the creamy smooth 8 core performance and will drop serious bucks on Threadripper next year, me among them. This is reality, you can fool yourself, but who the fuck cares?

Yah, Intel screwed up, AMD didn't. It happens.

There's this big obvious income source coming for the company, an expensive factory being made that will make the next technology that everyone wants.

Without a disinformation campaign, folks would see that income source, and trade to match expected values, tempered for obvious risks, like failure rates and competition.

So, how do you turn this big, obvious market event in your favor?

You spread as much garbage about the company as you can. Headlines - headlines everywhere about everything you can get anyone to believe, that the company is fated for a giant fall. Get those stocks to as low a value as you can - then buy them, just before the actual numbers come back about a factory doing what a factory does.

So... the guy in charge of said factory decides to make the thing private, to prevent your strategy from working! Aw! All that work trashing the company, and you can't benefit from it! Such a loss of potential!

That's the market, as it is currently allowed to function. Folks using every piece of information as pivots to fool other investors.

The same thing is happening with Square Enix - about to release like 5 major games after working several years on each, and just releasing another major game now. What do the stories say about this, just before?

https://wccftech.com/square-en...

That's right - they emphasize the losses from making those games. They want those values low, low, low.

It's kind of a stupid way to value things, isn't it?

Ryan Fenton

First, it looks like AMD Vega 20 is going to outperform Pascal.

Wow, a GPU with no actual release date (but predicted for a second-half 2018 release) might be faster than a competitor's product from mid-2016?! How compelling!

Based on remarks from nVidia's CEO, the next-gen Turing architecture is probably going to be released in 2019.

There are reference samples with partners already and even in the links you posted the best guess is that we might not see Turing-based Geforces until 2019.

Since Vega 20 will probably be out this year, for the first time in a while AMD will hold the GPU performance crown for about one year

Or one month depending on when they are released or perhaps not at all if the rockpapershotgun author's guess is wrong.

To sum it all up, things are not looking very good for nVidia right now.

Really? They have the performance crown in the gaming space, they dominate the datacenter space with P100 and V100 chips and dominate the machine learning space too from datacenter to processors for self-driving cars. Add to that samples of their next generation architecture are already out in the field with partners. The only real threat is the rumor that intel might compete in 2 years time, of course intel does not have a good track record in this space.

This is probably nVidia's response to the market heating up.

First, it looks like AMD Vega 20 is going to outperform Pascal. Based on remarks from nVidia's CEO, the next-gen Turing architecture is probably going to be released in 2019. Since Vega 20 will probably be out this year, for the first time in a while AMD will hold the GPU performance crown for about one year, maybe more if Turning doesn't deliver. On top of that, for the first time in a decade Intel is now a big wildcard. Current rumor is Intel will be releasing a discrete GPU in 2020. Intel hired the guy from AMD that lead the development of Vega, so chances are Intel actually means business this time.

To sum it all up, things are not looking very good for nVidia right now. So they are acting early to prevent journalists from reporting a possible fall from grace if it were to happen in the near future.

That would be NVIDIA's latest ARM SoC at 350 mm2.

Sorry but your reply is just flat out incorrect. https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen...

Maybe 400% faster than YOUR amd CPU.. but not even close to that much difference on mine(R7-1700 overclocked) and damn sure not more than zen+.

1. The pedestrian was J-Walking

slow moving person, dragging metal reflector, crossing 3-4 lanes of road at 90 angle, directly under two street lamps, on an empty road with good visibility (actual one, not the lol dashcam) - PERFECT scenario for self driving technology.

2. The driver was paying no attention to the road.

self driving part

3. The sensor wasn't able to respond in time.

car didnt respond AT ALL

I think the nVidia chip is the last thing that should be faulted here.

"NVIDIA Titan V Reportedly Producing Errors in Scientific Simulations" https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ti...

https://wccftech.com/wow-class...

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Blizzard’s Vice President and production director on World of Warcraft, J. Allen Brack, talks about re-recreating the original World of Warcraft experience in WoW Classic.

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Zen CCX = four cores.
Ryzen (4-8 cores) = Two CCX connected using infinity fabric on the same chip.
ThreadRipper (8-16 cores) and Epyc (? - 32 cores) = Four Ryzen chips also connected with infinity fabric on the same interposer.

Or something such.
Epyc & ThreadRipper: https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-co...

Well AMD already did their whole diversification strategy to "Enterprise, embedded and semi-custom" which I thought would be their final "if you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen" move, it created other revenue but it also diverted more resources away from competing with Intel. Back in Q2 2016 their "traditional" CPU/GPU unit was down to $435M in revenue and hemorrhaging money (-$85M) and I thought it was only a matter of time before they threw in the towel at least in the CPU market. Sure they hyped Zen but AMD had a long history of promising the world and not delivering.

Fortunately for all of us, probably most of all AMD they actually had a winner. Last quarter (Q3, Q4 is not out yet) they had $70M in profit on $819M in sales in the same unit, that turnaround is pretty much all Zen in different variations. It was like seeing a boxer battling on the ropes being battered, bruised and dazzled making one last Hail Mary knockout attempt and hitting hard. Now if only they could do the same in the GPU market, after the GTX 9xx series totally crushed them they never quite recovered. More important than low power mobile anyway.

fingerprint scanning increases the cost of the phone. Face recognition does not require any additional hardware.

Not true. There is both a structured light transmitter and receiver which are additional hardware compared to previous iphones. There may also be a separate processor for data processing of these modules.

[citation needed]

Why don't you try posting something like "illegal immigrants are a pain in the ass" on /r/politics. I'll wait for your ban, you could post say "not all illegal immigrants are a pain in the ass" on T_D, people would even tell you to defend your pov. Besides, that, you been paying to the absolute bullshit going on in FOSS communities? Where people have started witch hunting code contributors because they have sexual life styles that the new leftist moral majority don't like. Enjoy the shit show

But you're an anonymous coward. There is no "you", and therefore, no one gives a fuck about "your" opinion.

But you sure got up in arms over it.

That is complete, utter, total, and every other kind of bullshit. The conservative wing is powered by the religious reich, which absolutely opposes free expression.

The religious hold on conservative has been dead around 20-28 years at this point. You might have missed it if you were living in a social bubble, where they kept telling you that though. It was roughly that wingnuts were trying to blow up abortion clinics, and people simply had enough.

You either haven't read up much on the Nazis, or you think they were grand.

So let's look at all that fascist stuff the left is going down with: Free speech walls, making claims that "bad speech is hate speech" with the demands that anything contrary to their opinion must be silenced. Doxing, going after employees of companies(there's even a giant tumblr blog you can find that they still refuse to take down). There was the apparent case of witch hunting on a game developer the other day by leftists(they class themselves as SJW's just a FYI) for holding opinions they didn't like.

Oh and remember the limerick from Pillars of Eternity they didn't like? And got so upset that they started attacking the developers so it got changed...or how about the time when they went after one of the artists for Divinity: Original Sin.

Moron. Living under a rock, in DeNial or just a plain old liar(nice little summary)?

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 GV-N1060G1 GAMING-3GD 2.0 3GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Video Card
https://www.newegg.com/Product...
$245

But according to several sites a 1050ti would be fine too if you accept running with lower settings..

For $210 you can get a cheap base system.
Case $33 - https://www.newegg.com/Product...
MB $45 - https://www.newegg.com/Product...
CPU $70 - https://www.newegg.com/Product...
RAM $53 - https://www.newegg.com/Product...
HDD $6 - https://www.newegg.com/Product...
Total: $207
Total including the GTX1060 - $452

This was just a really quick search .. You can get lower with same or better spec's if you shop around..

But you also need to consider comparing systems on an equal level... 4k gaming on XBox/PS4 is not always "real".. PS4 Pro does some sort of upscaling to make it look better.. XBox has other issues.. Feel free to have a look at the links below.
https://www.extremetech.com/ga...
http://www.wired.co.uk/article...
http://wccftech.com/elite-dang...

So... It's a huge difference in comparing 4k gaming on a console and a PC.

And naturally, right after I posted the parent, I found the cache sizes.

These are for a 16-core Threadripper 1950X:

L1 instruction cache: 32 KB x 16
L1 data cache: 64 KB x 16
L2 cache: 512 KB x 16
L3: 32 MB x 4

http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-cpu-performance-benchmarks-leak/

https://browser.primatelabs.com/v4/cpu/3324737

I'm not a CPU expert but it seems clear that L1 and L2 cache is per-core (makes sense) but L3 cache is shared... I'm going to guess that a group of 4 cores shares one 32 MB cache, since 4 * 4 is 16.

The bottleneck for most problems isn't CPU cycles/second, it's the bandwidth of getting data to/from those CPUs. Adding CPUs does nothing to improve performance unless you also give it a much wider I/O path to memory.

Threadripper parts have quite a lot of bandwidth. The pro parts ("Epyc") will have even more.

Threadripper is intended for the PC enthusiast market, not so much for data centers. Frankly I don't think that for even an enthusiast home user memory bandwidth will be a major differentiating point. CPU speed, number of cores, and cache size will likely matter more. (I'm not worried about any of the above. I can't find L1 or L2 cache size numbers but I found that the L3 cache is 32 MB and since AMD was very focused on instructions-per-clock I am confident they didn't skimp on the cache.)

For data centers AMD will be selling the Epyc chips, and those can support up to 2 TB of RAM per socket (i.e. a dual-socket server would max out at 4 TB of RAM). In contrast, Intel tops out at 1.5 TB, and to get that you now have to buy their special and more-expensive chips with the "M" suffix; the non-M chips top out at 768 GB of RAM.

https://semiaccurate.com/2017/07/11/intel-launches-purley-aka-metal-xeons/

Threadripper also has a really large number of PCI-E lanes (64) so in theory you also could set up a really wide-bandwidth SSD or RAMdisk or something.

Your joke is old and outdated.

AMD Ryzens run much cooler compared to their Intel counterparts, unless you want to void your warranty and delid your Intel CPU:
http://wccftech.com/intel-core...

Sorry but bullshit. I had half a dozen boxes at the shop I had to do a wipe and reinstall on because they had Nvidia NForce boards and Windows 10 Upgrade Advisor happily claims it is compatible...if you consider no video drivers, no sound, and no networking "compatible"? Then I have some swampland in FLA you might be interested in.

Oh BTW, if you try to do a rollback on a system with Nvidia NForce board? Welcome to endless reboot, it totally trashes the original OS. Luckily they were just boxes for sale and had nothing I gave a shit about on them but wasn't really thrilled about having to do OS reinstalls on what was perfectly working Win 7 boxes before MSFT got a hold of 'em.

And yes software can damage hardware, or did you not hear that both AMD and Nvidia have had bad drivers come out within the past year and Windows 10 has the nasty habit of forcing driver updates? In case you missed it here is a report on the Nvidia driver and here is the one for AMD. Nvidia is claiming theirs doesn't do actual hardware damage but that isn't what the users are reporting and after Bumpgate we all know how well we can trust Nvidia to be honest about hardware issues.

Sadly low power dedicated graphics cards aren't being made, due to integrated graphics removing the OEM market for it. The lone exception is geforce GT710 (and the GT610 before that) with a 19W TDP, and a somewhat rare nvidia GPU (GM108) on some ultrabooks.
Either AMD or nvidia could make a low power GPU like that wih the latest technology and some LPDDR or DDR4 memory, if so they wished.

nvidia almost released a 15W graphics card with a Maxwell GPU
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gef...

Don't forget Vulkan, which effectively puts the CPU in the back seat. And there are lots of great Ryzen reviews out there, in contrast to the Intel dicksuck site you picked.

Exactly!
Intel's real response to Ryzen is the start of a new dirty tricks campaign: http://wccftech.com/intel-play...
(well, it worked the last time)

If the benchmarks leaked today turn out to be legit, it is looking very good indeed for Ryzen:
http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-...

According to http://wccftech.com/amd-am4-opga-socket-1331 the use of the OPGA 1331 pin socket supports processors with a TDP of up to 140 watts.

However, it is claimed http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-8-core-4-core-cpus-leaked/ that the 8 core Ryzen processor will have a TDP of 95 watts while the 4 core variant will have a TDP of 65 watts.

There are reports http://wccftech.com/ryzen-ces-2017-3-6-ghz-base-clock-f4-stepping-4-0-ghz/ that an Ryzen 8 core processor shown at CES was clocked at 3.6 GHz with the ability to turbo to 3.9 GHz.

It appears that AMD may have done well, but we won't know for sure until systems are available.

According to http://wccftech.com/amd-am4-opga-socket-1331 the use of the OPGA 1331 pin socket supports processors with a TDP of up to 140 watts.

However, it is claimed http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-8-core-4-core-cpus-leaked/ that the 8 core Ryzen processor will have a TDP of 95 watts while the 4 core variant will have a TDP of 65 watts.

There are reports http://wccftech.com/ryzen-ces-2017-3-6-ghz-base-clock-f4-stepping-4-0-ghz/ that an Ryzen 8 core processor shown at CES was clocked at 3.6 GHz with the ability to turbo to 3.9 GHz.

It appears that AMD may have done well, but we won't know for sure until systems are available.

According to http://wccftech.com/amd-am4-opga-socket-1331 the use of the OPGA 1331 pin socket supports processors with a TDP of up to 140 watts.

However, it is claimed http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-8-core-4-core-cpus-leaked/ that the 8 core Ryzen processor will have a TDP of 95 watts while the 4 core variant will have a TDP of 65 watts.

There are reports http://wccftech.com/ryzen-ces-2017-3-6-ghz-base-clock-f4-stepping-4-0-ghz/ that an Ryzen 8 core processor shown at CES was clocked at 3.6 GHz with the ability to turbo to 3.9 GHz.

It appears that AMD may have done well, but we won't know for sure until systems are available.

Intel hasn't given us specific information about the specs and speeds of its first Compute Cards, but you can expect the fastest ones to approach the performance of high-end fanless laptops like Apple's MacBooks.

As impressive a feat as this might appear, at first, one must remember that Apple devices running last year's A9X are already faster than the Apple MacBook running Intel's equivalent processor, according to the latest GeekBench numbers - http://wccftech.com/apple-a9xi.... So, I fully expect that newer devices running Apple's A10 or Qualcomm's Snapdragon 821 (that are slightly larger than a credit card due to some additional features that Intel's compute cards lack, such as a touch screen, gyro, motion, barometric, gps, cdma, gsm, lte, wifi, dsp, hsm, etc.) to already be a lot faster than Intel's fastest Compute Cards (assuming that the MacBook remains the benchmark performance).

I think that what Intel's Compute Cards will have going for them will be accessibility, programability, price and the ease of interfacing them to custom devices for developers... That is what Intel should be emphasizing. Vending machines, signage displays, self service kiosks, home automation hubs, assembly line robots, etc. do not need lots of computing power... but they need reliability, availability and dependability with minimal human intervention in some of the harshest environments, every single day of the year.

There are hints that Intel is actually seeing Ryzen as a threat and having to adjust. First they moved their investor meeting from Nov to Feb , then Intel just killed the KBL-H(mobile workstations) for the 2017 road map.Note wccftech screws up some the arch sizes but the headline is correct. http://wccftech.com/intel-kaby...

Intel is not going to have the best q2-q4 in 2017, and maybe into 2018. Intel has nothing really new on the roadmap, just die shrinks.

More telling is Intel killed off their KBL-H(mobile workstations) in the 2017 road map and alos moved investor meeting to from Nov to Feb. Most likely having to adjust to Ryzen actually being a threat in 2017. Note wccftech screws up some the arch sizes but the headline is correct. http://wccftech.com/intel-kaby...

The way Intel, Samsung, and TSMC measure transistor size isn't the same. Some of Intel's 22nm transistor structures were smaller than TSMC's 16nm. I do agree Intel's lead has shrunk, but just because one process is called 14nm and another 10nm doesn't really matter - transistor density and production yields are what are important.

You're gonna need another field for all those moving goalposts, but what the hell. Set your alarm for 1H 2017.

I can't even tell what their newest CPU's are. Intel makes it easy, i3 Basic, i5 mid range i7 high end.

Well, then good news! AMD's upcoming RyZen chips will be marketed under the SR3, SR5, and SR7 labels, allegedly at half the price of their Intel equivalents. They also recently matched or beat current-gen i7s in several benchmarks.

Intel is only "refining" the 14nm design through the natural course of their "tick-tock" process (which has now added a third "tock", which seems likely to be due to lack of real competition). The fact remains that intel opened their 10nm fab in July, we're 6 months into production, and Canyonlake is on track for next year:

Intel starts up 10nm factory

or another article from October entitled Samsung Galaxy S8 Won’t Feature A 3.5mm Earphone Jack Either If Latest Certifications Are Followed

http://wccftech.com/samsung-ga...

Not yet, but AMD Zen CPUs will have such a feature. Have some articles:

http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-en...
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
http://www.redgamingtech.com/a...

I was not aware that Tesla owner had given expressed or implied permission to Tesla to spy on their driving, to upload the data to Tesla's servers and to use this data for Tesla's profit without any compensation of any kind.

I also thought that Tesla was not until recently developing their own autopilot. I thought they had subcontracted Mobileye for this. Now Mobileye and Tesla have parted ways, to whom does this data belong ?

These are pros. Not airs for consumers

[sarcasm]And pros never buy during the Christmas season. And consumers never buy the MacBook Pro.[/sarcasm]

Yes the newer GPUs use Samsung 14 nm processes compared to the 28 nm from previous generation. Big boast in performance.

[Citation Needed]. My information says that the Radeon Pro 455 which is Radeon Arctic Islands architecture and is manufactured on TSMC 16nm FinFET process not a 28nm process.

These are supposedly for professionals. Not capable of any real work dealing with VMware fusion, Adobe premiere, compiling code, or anything else a professional would use.

Let's look at this argument. You are saying that pros would benefit greatly enough from using Kaby Lake over Skylake. The fastest mobile Kaby Lake is the Core i7 7500u(cpu score: 5381) vs a Core i7 6700T (cpu score:8971) which Apple used instead the MacBook Pro. The mobile CPU Apple used clobbers the best Kaby Lake mobile CPU. Do you want to guess why? Because Intel hasn't released a Quadcore mobile Kaby Lake CPU yet. Intel isn't expected to release the Quadcore versions until December which means Apple might have them ready for consumers in April at the earliest.

At best pros will have to wait six to nine months for the next MacBook Pro. Or Apple could release a MacBook Pro with the processors it has now.

OEM's have already started selling laptops with Kaby Lake CPU's. Apple, however, cheaped out on the core part of their system, so what makes you think they won't cheap out on everything?

You've got your facts backwards: Apple is the one that went with the more expensive, more powerful part, and it's the other OEMs who are cheaping out by using the chips they are.

The Kaby Lake chips that are available today are the dual core models. The quad-core Kaby Lake chips that would be suitable for use in a MacBook Pro won't be available for another few months. Moreover, even if they had waited, it wouldn't have made much of a difference. The performance gap between the generations is minimal (which seems to be the general trend for CPUs these days), whereas the dual core to quad core performance gap is substantial for the types of work you expect pro users to be doing. Sticking with Skylake was definitely the right call because it allowed them to release a more powerful machine without the wait, and it was definitely not the cheaper route.

Then you have the puffery about USB-C and TB3. My Dell has had that for nearly a year. Marketing is one thing, but don't insult me with your lies, Apple.

You accuse them of puffery and lies without citing examples of either. They said it has Thunderbolt 3 via USB 3.1 Type-C. They never claimed it was first laptop to offer it (nor would they, since they launched one earlier this year that had it), though they're definitely the first to embrace it to such a degree by putting four of the ports on one machine, making them the only ports the computer has, and making them equally usable for all tasks (i.e. you can plug any cable--including the power cable--into any of them).

Then there's the pathetic AMD GPU. Just make a goddamned nVidia driver for macOS already.

It's the not-yet-released Radeon Pro 460 (i.e. the mobile version of the RX 460), and the Polaris architecture has been going head-to-head with nVidia's latest architecture (Pascal) in terms of both performance and power efficiency. But facts be damned. It's apparently "pathetic" because an Anonymous Coward has declared it so.

There are certainly valid reasons to go from Mac to Windows (I'm even planning to do so myself before the end of the year) or vice versa, but it sounds to me like you're just grasping for any reason you can find to rationalize the decision you made.