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A comment on Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs. Parent comment

Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by frereubu on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:50AM (#34897455)
I’m not sure if you’re aware of this, but alongside 3nm processes there’s a cutting edge technology called “glasses”…
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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by vel0city on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:09PM (#34898777)
Glasses help with focusing, but they don't help if your sensors (retinas) are just degrading.

Putting a very fancy lens on a 0.3MP sensor doesn't give you higher resolution photos.

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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by frereubu on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:51PM (#34899651)
GP didn't mention degrading retinas, just age. I'm over 50 and need glasses but, while acknowledging that life is a one-way journey, I just don't like people talking like ageing is necessarily this slide into decrepitude after 40.
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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by vel0city on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @04:04PM (#34902705)
> GP didn't mention degrading retinas, just age.

Retinas degrading is a factor of age.

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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by frereubu on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:56AM (#34968325)
The vast, vast majority of people in their 40s (wearing appropriate glasses if necessary) can tell the difference between an average monitor and a 4K display, which is the context of their comment.
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