It may be that Apple's yield of 10-core GPUs is lower than expected, but those GPUs validate just fine with 9 cores enabled. Or maybe Apple had another marketing reason, such as further differentiating the iPad Pro.

"iPhone owners get $92 payouts from Apple in phone-throttling settlement"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/iphone-owners-ge...

etc...

"Some iPhone users eligible for $349 in lawsuit settlement payout over audio issues"

"Apple Lawsuit: M1 MacBook Pro and Air Have Display Hardware Defects, Causes Screens to Crack"

"AppleCare Class Action: Apple Agrees to $95 Million Settlement for iPhone, iPad Users Given ‘Remanufactured’ Devices"

"Apple Agrees to $50 Million Settlement Over Butterfly Keyboard Complaints"

This doesn’t apply to puffery claims though, which is why Apple could have said ‘the new M2, with the best number of cores ever!’ And been fine with whatever.

Or it's simply that much cheaper to yield a 9 core than a 10 from their production. Gotta stretch that profit margin even more, they don't make enough of apple users already.

  fraction of area for GPU / total device area * defect density

square that for binning from 10 to 8 so 3% yield improvement there (so ~4.6% total)

if the TMSC 3nm process is up at 10-20% then this starts to get material

[1] https://computer-communication.blogspot.com/2007/06/unlockin...

Older GeForces were hackable similarly, but then Nvidia shifted to specific resistance values: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398555

That would be iSH, slow but functional Alpine Linux emulation for iOS.

https://ish.app

I must’ve hallucinated running swap on my Amiga way back when.

Believe what you want, but blanket statements like that are beyond silly.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Upgrade_Service

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNv2EOc6ma0

In particular, I like annotating content in books.

The iPod is wildly popular. Not everyone has the same philosophical bent as you.

This is despite the fact that they solidly outsell macs. And if they were not from Apple but were a private company they’d be considered one of the few remarkably enormous hits in the tech industry. But Apple is so big it (supposedly) doesn’t matter.

I use an air for taking notes, because handwritten notes are all searchable, and some document annotation. That makes it worth it for me though my mac is my main drive.

I’m very happy to not use a general purpose computer anymore, to be honest.

The iPad Pro has been literally as fast as a MBA and supported KB/M input alongside touch and pen for years but you still run into weird edge cases where it's either too janky and time consuming to do on the iPad (e.g. file management) or some really basic app is just missing.

I do.

> I have two and I regret it.

Apparently, so do you.

"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.'"

And one way you do that is by selling the extra chips you'd previously been flagging as yield failures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1#Variants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M2#Variants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M3#Variants

All of the M-series processors so far have been sold in at least two bins.