What's really scary, and that most of you will never know, is that The Matrix got things 99% right. The only flaw was when they compared humans to Duracell batteries. You're actually Energizer batteries.
Since iPhones and iPads, iTunes and others bring in a lot more money than all Macs combined, does it really matter to Apple to lose a small percentage of Mac sales if it means lower-priced Macs with a bigger profit margin? (ex: intel CPU cost $300, Apple's A11 cost $30, they lower their Mac price by $200 and still make $70 more profit than before).
Holy crap I simply used the "not vote for Trump" from the previous post and made it into a Quest for the Holy Grail bit and you guys degenerated that into a political crap-fest.
I didn't fuck the quote up at all. I had to change it because the original phrasing makes no sense if you replace "theme park" with "internet". Without internet you got no blackjack (gambling sites) and no hookers (porn sites).
Read my comment again. I said multiple multi-core ARMs vs a single multi-core x86. Surely Apple's own A10-whatever costs a lot less than any intel CPU they're using so they could put more than one A10 in their Macs.
Trump: I am your president. Dennis: Well, I didn't vote for you. Trump: You don't vote for presidents. Dennis: Well how'd you become president then? [Angelic music plays... ] Trump: The corporations, controlling everything and everyone, chose me by divine providence that I, Trump, was to be the chosen one. THAT is why I am your president. Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, corrupt corporations bribing bureaucrats is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from monetary exchange.
Don't listen to him. I have a much better deal available.
You've heard of Bitcoin, right? You know how expensive a Bitcoin is? It's now at USD$4600 for a single coin!
You like dogs? Well, did you know there's a crypto-currency called Dogecoins? The mascot is a nice Shiba Inu dog! And here's my deal: unlike those expensive Bitcoins, my Dogecoins are really much cheaper! What if I told you that for a small investment of USD$1000 can give you 550 Dogecoins? Wouldn't you be interested? If you are, send me an email at totallynotascam@gmail.com
My joke was that you had to do any research at all and that Apple, being costly, had the best 1% of hardware and PC peasants had to buy the 99% rejects.
As I said, they won't say it but I'm sure the non-trivial software cost is already done and always have been there since the first days of Mac OS X. It's not like Apple are strangers to platform changes. 68K to PPC, PPC to Intel and maybe Intel to ARM in the (near) future.
They also had fat binaries with both PPC and x86 code at the same time, then 32-bit and 64-bit too, so don't count them out because they'd have to support two versions of everything. They've done it before and they're probably still doing it. So there's no added cost. If they think people will accept ARM-powered Macs and it can both reduce the price of the Macs and make them more profit at the same time, they'll do it.
What about multiple multi-core ARMs working in parallel compared to a single multi-core mobile CPU? Because that's what Apple uses in the Mac Mini, the MacBooks and the iMac. The MacBook is even worst, using an ultra-low-power mobile CPU, a single ARM is probably at least head-to-head with it, if not faster.
Whatever the cost, remember when the Keynote when they told us they had Mac OS X running on Intel CPUs since practically the beginning? You can be sure they also have macOS running on A11 (or whatever) in their labs right now.
And since power requirements and heat dissipation are much different in something the size of a MacBook air compared to something like an iPhone or iPad, you can be sure whatever numbers we've seen for the iPad Pro are lower than what we'd see in a A11-powered MacBook.
Perhaps they also have dual or even Quad-A11 in their prototypes. I don't know the cost of an A11 compared to a i5 but I'm thinking they can put multiple A11's inside a Mac before reaching the cost of a single i5.
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$ means variable? How do you define a variable about cash? Does $$ mean anything?
What's really scary, and that most of you will never know, is that The Matrix got things 99% right. The only flaw was when they compared humans to Duracell batteries. You're actually Energizer batteries.
Things that get replaced more often will be more advanced.
Since iPhones and iPads, iTunes and others bring in a lot more money than all Macs combined, does it really matter to Apple to lose a small percentage of Mac sales if it means lower-priced Macs with a bigger profit margin? (ex: intel CPU cost $300, Apple's A11 cost $30, they lower their Mac price by $200 and still make $70 more profit than before).
Holy crap I simply used the "not vote for Trump" from the previous post and made it into a Quest for the Holy Grail bit and you guys degenerated that into a political crap-fest.
What about a Mac with two internal drives, a non-Apple SSD and regular HDD? The HDD prevents the OS from using APFS?
Why can't both run at the same time and reply to their respective requests?
Alexa, order more shit from amazon.
Cortana, open Word and disable Clippy.
I didn't fuck the quote up at all. I had to change it because the original phrasing makes no sense if you replace "theme park" with "internet". Without internet you got no blackjack (gambling sites) and no hookers (porn sites).
Read my comment again. I said multiple multi-core ARMs vs a single multi-core x86. Surely Apple's own A10-whatever costs a lot less than any intel CPU they're using so they could put more than one A10 in their Macs.
Trump: I am your president.
Dennis: Well, I didn't vote for you.
Trump: You don't vote for presidents.
Dennis: Well how'd you become president then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
Trump: The corporations, controlling everything and everyone, chose me by divine providence that I, Trump, was to be the chosen one. THAT is why I am your president.
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, corrupt corporations bribing bureaucrats is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from monetary exchange.
We're going go build our own Internet, with blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the blackjack!
"$1000 divided by $100 equals a hundred times worse."
Epic Pivot.
Don't listen to him. I have a much better deal available.
You've heard of Bitcoin, right? You know how expensive a Bitcoin is? It's now at USD$4600 for a single coin!
You like dogs? Well, did you know there's a crypto-currency called Dogecoins? The mascot is a nice Shiba Inu dog! And here's my deal: unlike those expensive Bitcoins, my Dogecoins are really much cheaper! What if I told you that for a small investment of USD$1000 can give you 550 Dogecoins? Wouldn't you be interested? If you are, send me an email at totallynotascam@gmail.com
My joke was that you had to do any research at all and that Apple, being costly, had the best 1% of hardware and PC peasants had to buy the 99% rejects.
Seriously, do people not even bother using Google anymore? Here's the AMD 80386 DX-40.
As I said, they won't say it but I'm sure the non-trivial software cost is already done and always have been there since the first days of Mac OS X. It's not like Apple are strangers to platform changes. 68K to PPC, PPC to Intel and maybe Intel to ARM in the (near) future.
They also had fat binaries with both PPC and x86 code at the same time, then 32-bit and 64-bit too, so don't count them out because they'd have to support two versions of everything. They've done it before and they're probably still doing it. So there's no added cost. If they think people will accept ARM-powered Macs and it can both reduce the price of the Macs and make them more profit at the same time, they'll do it.
Maybe Llew Claasen is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Damn. Now you tell me? I just invested 2.38 MILLION Dogecoins to buy a single Bitcoin!
Yeah but we're in 2017 and "Re-maker ourselves" doesn't sound as good.
If you want VC money you better start using Keynote instead of PowerPoint.
Obligatory Shrek reference.
Damn, Oswald McWeany beat me to it.
Epic Pivot on my part.
That's an Epic Pivot for you.
Nah, it sounds wrong.
What about multiple multi-core ARMs working in parallel compared to a single multi-core mobile CPU? Because that's what Apple uses in the Mac Mini, the MacBooks and the iMac. The MacBook is even worst, using an ultra-low-power mobile CPU, a single ARM is probably at least head-to-head with it, if not faster.
Whatever the cost, remember when the Keynote when they told us they had Mac OS X running on Intel CPUs since practically the beginning? You can be sure they also have macOS running on A11 (or whatever) in their labs right now.
And since power requirements and heat dissipation are much different in something the size of a MacBook air compared to something like an iPhone or iPad, you can be sure whatever numbers we've seen for the iPad Pro are lower than what we'd see in a A11-powered MacBook.
Perhaps they also have dual or even Quad-A11 in their prototypes. I don't know the cost of an A11 compared to a i5 but I'm thinking they can put multiple A11's inside a Mac before reaching the cost of a single i5.