Comment on Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
I’m not understanding the logic here. Apple killed their last tower. That isn’t surprising, and their user base is perfectly happy buying nothing but SOCs.
Then there is a still-expanding PC gaming market, where building the machine from discrete parts is a portion of the hobby. By and large, this has never really overlapped with Apple’s user base.
The article does a poor job saying why we should expect non-Apple machines to go the same direction.
artyom@piefed.social 1 week ago
They already are. Increased speed and efficiency are solid reasons. The Mac Pro was absolutely enormous in comparison to the new Mac Studio, which absolutely blows it away in terms of performance, while being a lot cheaper. Strix Halo is a great example of similar benefits on the PC front.
The vast majority of PCs aren’t sold to hobbyists. Gamers mostly benefit from the existence of other markets that they can sell these chips too. If those go, these chips get taken off the market.