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There’s lots of custom ARM silicon out there that is unique to the customer, Apple simply has taken the customizations to a new level. But Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and a handful of others are doing it it’s one of the many ARM license types they sell.
And, like Apple, likely you can't buy those CPUs either.
Well I mean you can buy an Apple device and they are in there, much like the Samsung Exynos M series.
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I don't understand it either. Superfish alone should've been a sufficient deterrent, but you've probably noticed it's quite common for individuals to defend corporations when they're guilty of shitty behavior.
Mind you, Apple isn't insisting on collecting at least some telemetry, or threatening to put app ads in your OS.
90% of my Laptop fleet are currently Latitudes, the bulk of them being 3500 or 3520's at this point, they are solid little units and pretty easy to work on. I just wish they would ditch the 4.5mm barrel plug and move them all over to USB-C like they have the 5000 and 7000 series.
Their XPS lineup is... Fine as long as you never intend to call Dell for support and only carry the standard 1-year warranty, XPS units are one of those models that many 2'nd party distributors sell in bulk packages when they need to move off Dell's surplus prosumer parts. I just hate dealing with them, any deal they can give a decent Dell rep can match, easier to deal with Dell directly than a middle man.
This is honestly one of the best interpretations of manufacturer-supplied benchmarks I've ever read. Hats off to you!
The Apple M chips advantage and the only thing that confuses people about it's performance is the Media Engine that Apple put into it. The Media Engine is a heavy duty video encoder decoder that consumes very little power, and is honestly very impressive considering what it can do. It's why Apple says it's like a RTX 3080, if all you did with a RTX 3080 was video editing. It's also why the M1 looks extremely power efficient because most tests were done purely on video playback and editing. This is why anyone buying a Apple M1 should be focusing on video editing and playback as the main reason for buying one, as the CPU and GPU aren't as capable compared to x86 counterparts. As I've shown, it's not much better in battery life when the CPU and GPU are mainly used.
Or they develop such a massive patent portfolio around ARM that it strangles AMD and Nvidia out the gate
Apple also gives you control over that data, including during the setup process. Microsoft's approach is "will you let us share a ton of data, or just some data?"
Lenovo does not have defense contracts. They’ve been put on a permanent shit list since 2015.
Oh I’m aware. Doesn’t change the fact that anyone using them and purchasing them is a complete numpty.
Their business lineup is fine hardware and generally bloat-free, it's their consumer side and support that has gone to shit.
I don't think this was so much Apple trying to strangle choice as just deciding that it wants off the x86 rollercoaster. The company has seen this script play out before: company X ties its business to third-party product Y, gets burned when Y either stumbles or loses interest in X. The best way to avoid the boom-and-bust cycle of Intel and AMD is to not participate in the first place.
This is something I predicted would happen. At some point Nvidia and Qualcomm will release killer ARM SoC's because unlike Apple they have a much larger market to sell these too, and therefore much larger reason to invest R&D. The iPhone market is very large but the M based hardware isn't for those devices. Not to forget, x86 ain't going nowhere. I've tried to make Raspberry Pi's work and I love the idea, but when I need something x86 to work it just isn't gonna happen. Especially because when I tried to make the Rapsberry Pi work the GPU drivers weren't finished and installing Ubuntu 64-bit on my Pi3 is not a good idea unless you want to wait 5 minutes to boot the OS. I just found cheaper NUC's for the same price as a Pi with far more capabilities. ARM just needs so much more software support for me to even consider using it beyond novelty stuff. Apple decided to make this their primary CPU architecture for their computers.
Apple could only do that if Apple owned ARM. AMD and Nvidia though can certainly punish Apple with their GPU licensing. Apple is licensing Imaginations PowerVR stuff so I can see certain technologies that AMD and Nvidia have that Apple might want to license.
I'm sure you'll never get a chance to explain why any of what I've said is hilarious.
You need to own something to say something about it? I really doubt anyone who owns a BMW knows anything about the car beyond gas goes in, cars goes vroom. This applies to Apple M1 owners, as I've proven them wrong as a non-M1 owner. The only way this makes sense if you take apart your products and put them under xray to see how the internals work. Either that or you develop code for the hardware. If you're not doing either then why does owning the hardware matter?
Aren't you the guy that only appears when Apple is being called out?
Apple's R&D budget was $20 bil a few years back. Nvidia's is only $5.25 bil as of this year.
Apple wants to not depend on anyone for their products. Remember the fiasco where Apple didn't want to pay Qualcomm license fees for their radio hardware? Of all companies, they had Intel make it. That's not because it's better, because the Intel radio was inferior to the Qualcomm one, but because it's cheaper for Apple. I'm sure Apple's M1 is far cheaper for Apple in the long run compared to buying Intel x86 CPU's.
Apple can't patent anything from the stock ARM ISA, but they can and do patent their customizations to it, they also successfully file a large number of patents referring to their SOCs themselves.
I firmly believe this was their goal with ARM, after the purchase they could have made their proprietary GPU tech the global standard over the course of 4 years. Yeah AMD may have a lock on the consoles for the foreseeable future but if they were the defacto on every ARM-based Chromebook, Android device, etc.
Eh, I always find it odd that people will blast Apple when all it's really doing is marketing its products from a certain angle. It's just that Apple makes the whole package, not only the hardware, and can market more unique features (however well they work) than Android and Windows vendors. Plenty of other brands use incredulous language — Lenovo claims its Legion laptops have "ultimate performance" and "uncompromised battery life" when you know damn well they make sacrifices in both areas.
So what do you think of specint 2017 numbers for apple M1 vs ryzen 5950 and intel 11th gen.
Not sure what we should think about them ?
