Teardown of the 14″ MacBook Pro M2 with Apple’s Help

Re:Teardown of the 14″ MacBook Pro M2 with Apple’s Help by ohgodplsno on Monday January 30, 2023 @03:07AM (#34577088)

They're not a ridiculously large jump, not on the overall scale of performance. There's nothing in an M1 that we couldn't do before, or haven't done before. High end SoCs have always had insane performance. However, slap literally any high end CPU of today on a SoC and you get the same results. Apple didn't invent new tech, didn't create performance out of thin air.

However, they did just force you to buy a new $2000 machine next time you want to upgrade in 3 years because it's a single, monolithic block.

>Let me know when other manufacturers figure out how to cheat in software/process-node/whatever and I’ll consider them.

Unfortunately, they all accept to be part of a greater ecosystem that doesn't attempt to fuck you over by being un-upgradable and incompatible with each other, so cheating is out of the way.

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Re:Teardown of the 14″ MacBook Pro M2 with Apple’s Help by mwint on Monday January 30, 2023 @09:29AM (#34579961)

> slap literally any high end CPU of today on a SoC and you get the same results.

They should do that!

> they did just force you to buy a new $2000 machine next time you want to upgrade in 3 years because it's a single, monolithic block.

You’re absolutely right. I love my really fast, cold-running, forever-battery monolithic block. I’m very happy to pay ($2000/365/3 = $1.82) per day for it, minus the resale value it’ll still have.

I understand the value of the ideals regarding end-user upgrades, but at the end of the day the tradeoffs just don’t make sense for me.

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