Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by kens on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:45PM (#23608777)

I looked up the numbers out of curiosity. The X1 Carbon has a i7-8650U processor which does about 26 GFlops. The Cray-1, the classic 1976 supercomputer did 130 MFlops. The Cray-1 weighed 5.5 tons, used 115 kW of power, and cost $8 million. The Cray-1 was used for nuclear weapon design, seismic analysis, high-energy physics, weather analysis and so forth. The X1 Carbon is roughly equivalent to 200 Crays and (according to the previous comment) displays animated emojis with some effort. I think there's something wrong with software.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by easytiger on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:05PM (#23608878)

> I think there's something wrong with software.

Amen

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by thejynxed on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:42PM (#23622957)

Well yes, it's quite noticeably sluggish and bloated on the whole, with even UIs seemingly getting worse over time. Probably doesn't help that everything these days wants to push and pull from multiple networked sources instead of being more self-contained.

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