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Re:Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, To... by mtgx on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:20AM (#18337377)
It boggles my mind that Apple hasn't switched to AMD Ryzen yet. Lower cost for them, more cores/higher overall performance for their customers. What's not to like?

But no, they'd rather try and sell people $20,000 Xeon Mac Pros with half the cores of an AMD Threadripper and like 4x the price.

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Re:Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, To... by dogma1138 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:04PM (#18338832)
Raven Ridge does not offer more cores than Intel CPUs, these are 4 Core dies with an iGPU while Intel offers upto 6 and now 8 with an iGPU.

While Ryzen has good power efficiency as far as power gating goes and power management it's still behind Intel considerably which we can see in actual usability batter tests it will take probably 2 more generations until AMD has the same power management capabilities as Intel does not only for the CPU but for the entire system since Intel has been developing the centralized power management since the Centrino platform.

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Re:Apple Finally Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display, To... by 51lver on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:59PM (#18338774)
The future is application processors. No point in switching to another general purpose CPU.
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