You can already get 7940HS mini PCs

There is very little demand for a powerful iGPU desktop chip

There was little demand. Things change.

In the sense that we take having 6 or 8 cores for granted

Shout out the the Duron line. Suddenly we could get decent a FPU without paying the Intel tax, and that mattered to me back then because I sure did not have a lot of spare cash.

My Duron 900 was a heck of an upgrade from the old K6-400. It lasted me until the Athlon 2500+ provided a similar incredible performance hike at a very forgiving price.

Pretty much what one would expect from a ~22% increase in GPU clock speed, I guess.

That will be a really nice upgrade for him - it’ll be 50-75% faster for anything CPU bound.

Apple set expectations with their marketing, and reinforce them with their pricing. Why does someone always try and defend the richest corporation on the planet when they get caught undercutting those expectations?

So basically a 7700xt at twice the price?

Yes. You can order it with the Windows of your choice or with no OS. as per the seller’s page.

Almost makes me wish I needed a new laptop. Looks like the perfect spec.

Yes. It looks like the OLED model is strictly superior; not just a better screen but better battery life and a smidgen faster.

He was explicitly talking about hardware performance. The APU specs haven’t changed.

bigger number better

Eh, 99% chance that it’s just a refresh from improved yields. A hundred or two more Mhz boost clock speed, perhaps, or slightly lower base clock power consumption.