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Re:AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review by th-miracle-257 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @10:39AM (#21536213)
Why did Apple not release their new MBP 16 with the 3950X? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21523780

Re:AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review by 3JPLW on Thursday November 14, 2019 @10:43AM (#21536261)
Because it's not a notebook chip? 105W is... a little toasty.
Re:AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review by neogodless on Thursday November 14, 2019 @11:18AM (#21536627)
Yeah, I don't think you need downvoted into oblivion for not knowing, but AMD mobile APUs are also not anywhere near this level. The top-end Ryzen 7 3780U is a 4-core multi-threaded part, using Zen+ rather than Zen 2, and the older Vega graphics. (And that's only available in a Surface laptop.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_proces...

Re:AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review by Someone1234 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @10:41AM (#21536245)
They're Intel based mobile systems. The 3950X is a desktop class AMD CPU.
Re:AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review by HHad3 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @10:53AM (#21536362)
In addition to the points already mentioned, a good bit of Apple's software depends on Intel-proprietary features, e.g. QuickSync for video encoding. So far, no macOS system ever shipped with an AMD CPU, and porting the OS and user-mode application stack is not trivial.
Re:AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review by wmf on Thursday November 14, 2019 @12:29PM (#21537343)
There must be Macs like the iMac Pro and Mac Pro that don't have Quick Sync.
Re:AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review by tachion on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:22PM (#21537868)
You will find people using Hackintosh machines with AMD cpu's just fine (as much as fine it is possible for a Hackintosh, that is).
Re:AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review by ErneX on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:42PM (#21538077)
Desktop chip and even AMD recommends water cooling it.