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Re:Apple testing new external display with A13 chip by closewith on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:03PM (#27934402)
> Displays wear out far faster than the GPUs driving them, and just have much higher failure rates in general, being physical targets for thrown handheld controllers and what not. Doesn't seem wise to make the display so much more costly to replace by shoving the GPU within it.

Is this true? This seems nearly diametric to my experience.

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Re:Apple testing new external display with A13 chip by kiawe_fire on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:29PM (#27934663)
Mine too.

In fact I dare say the GPU has been the single most failure prone component of every computer I’ve owned for the past 15 years.

Which only further illustrates the point that putting something expensive and unreliable into an already expensive device seems risky.

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