Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by daniellarusso on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:35AM (#26912454)

In high school, I worked a retail job for an office supply store, and one of the PC brands we would sell was Packard Bell.

We sold many different models with similar specs, and the main feature many of the potential buyers would be concerned with:

Will it fit with my current office furniture?

We sold both desktops and tower configurations, and the type of desk the computer would be used with was the determining factor in which model to buy.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by iSnow on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:31AM (#26913163)

And essentially, why not? If I want to work on a machine, I want it to be fast. Not 1.33x of the baseline benchmark CPU when equipped with X GB RAM. Just fast enough it doesn't annoy me.

And with today's PCI-E-based SSD's, waiting for data to be written to "disk" is a non-issue, so the system feels much faster.

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