I’m curious what led you to such differing opinions about the 11 Pro Max and 15 Pro Max?

I ask this as a 11 Pro user who has not felt a need to upgrade, and of course there’s always an itch to upgrade, but my 11 Pro still works as good as new, other than the usual degradation of better health.

The reality is that you’re going to see more places investing in these capabilities now, precisely because the chip shortage has shown how critical these capabilities are.

The ability to manufacture these is no longer simply an economic consideration. For countries that can afford it, it is a security consideration as well, and that changes the calculus of how much they’re willing to invest in their own industries and infrastructure.

On the other hand, thinking that putting in a bit of money in is going to make a difference is wishful thinking. The US put tens of billions into the CHIPS act, but this is a one-time off thing. Taiwan and TSMC invests tens of billions every year to keep its edge, and has been doing so for decades.

On the other hand, why would ARM want to kill the golden goose? Apple really brought ARM into the mainstream in a big way, and showed that its capabilities weren’t limited to low powered mobile devices.

IMHO smartphones already reached where they needed to be 5 years ago. Everything now is entirely iterative, and you’re probably not going to see a paradigm shift in smartphones. The real paradigm shift will come from wearables, which is where we see Apple focusing its efforts on now (wearables including smartwatches and AR/VR).

Who needs E cores when you can pull the same benchmarks as Intel at 2/3s the power?

You could, but then all you’re doing is buying a very expensive and inefficient space heater.

And then now they’ll claim “and we kept the same socket for the 13th and 14th gen” when it’s really the same generation.

Just curious - how do they help with hearing loss? Do they help you isolate voices better against background noise?

Did they really just say up to 11 hours additional battery life, and just breeze past it in 5 seconds like it was nothing?

I’m curious what this was in comparison to, and what accounts for this improvement in battery life.

That alone seems pretty nuts, even without taking anything else into account.

I’m curious why they would only include AV1 decode and not encode. Considering that creatives are supposed to be a significant part of their target audience, I would’ve assumed that AV1 hardware encode would’ve been pretty valuable.

My question is why didn’t he get a desktop instead?