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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by lhl on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:05PM (#38078603)
Apple launched M2 MBPs only in January. I wonder if Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite (benchmarking now, but not in products until mid-2024) drove some of the timing on this launch: https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/qualcomm-bri...
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by b0b10101 on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:12PM (#38078698)
other way around i suspect. qualcomm knew this event was coming and wanted to front-run's apple's announcement.

especially as the macs ship much sooner...

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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by re-thc on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:50PM (#38079105)
M2 was late rather than M3 being early.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by BirAdam on Monday October 30, 2023 @10:13PM (#38079326)
From what I’ve heard from folks connected with Apple, M3 was designed some time ago and TSMC delays on 3NM are why M2 happened at all. So, Apple is releasing M3 later than they’d have liked, and I expect we will see the M4 refresh faster than we would have otherwise.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by hajile on Monday October 30, 2023 @10:39PM (#38079537)
Oryon seems like it's going to be very competitive with the very underwhelming M3 design.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by threeseed on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:17AM (#38080226)
ARM on Windows is going to be irrelevant for at least a decade likely forever.

There is a long-standing culture with the Mac that (a) backwards compatibility is minimal, (b) developers need to always keep their code current and (c) users should expect constant turnover in the platform. None of that exists on Windows. And when we last saw Windows on ARM the outcomes were that this wasn't going to change.

Which means it will never be a transition rather a fragmentation of Windows ecosystem into two equal parts. Making it far less compelling for everyone.

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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by tbihl on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @10:27AM (#38085390)
The reports of emulation and native apps on Windows seem pretty compelling to me, and the battery life improvements are substantial. For people who live in browsers (most people), it's not that hard.

The more compelling reason for fragmentation is that AMD and Intel will stay with x86 as long as they can, and high prices from Qualcomm will keep people from shifting over en mass.

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