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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by JBiserkov on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:04PM (#42312088)
> and their silicon is only sold in machines with extremely fat margins

Like the brand new Mini that cost 600 USD and went to 500 during Black week.

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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by michaelmrose on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @06:56PM (#42313067)
The 600 mini is on the m4 with the anemic 10 core GPU. This is for grandama or your 10 year old.

The good one which is still slower than m4 max is 2200.

If you want the max you need at least a macbook pro starting at 3200 and if you want the better one with 128G RAM it starts at about 5k

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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by barkingcat on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @09:50PM (#42314077)
No matter how few GPU cores the M4 has, it is still an extremely potent product on the whole.

Better than most of the pc's out there.

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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by michaelmrose on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @10:23PM (#42314226)
Do you mean subjectively because you find Mac pleasant to use? The $600 mini certainly isn't more performant than 85% of desktops.
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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by my123 on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @01:16AM (#42314884)
> The $600 mini certainly isn't more performant than 85% of desktops.

The average desktop isn't exactly a gaming machine. But a corporate box or a low end home desktop with a Core i5 and using the iGPU.

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