Comment on Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days agoIntegrated processors let laptops be faster without also using power. Strictly speaking it’d be cheaper to just use a faster CPU but battery life is more important than cost so lots of money is spent on integrating processors.
Desktops are still around because they’re upgradable and faster than their laptop brothers.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
…once again, not talking about laptops.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
An AIO is effectively a laptop without a keyboard. They’re functionally very similar (appealing to less power-hungry users). They’re just less mobile.Presumably it’s cheaper for apple to just put the integrated CPUs in everything because it’d be expensive to make another model.
I garuntee you this trade off only makes sense for Apple. Other AIOs don’t always have the new laptop chips from Intel because it makes more sense to use the desktop one with all the space they have.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
They put them in everything because they’re smaller and more efficient (and thus quieter) and because they’re competitive with PC desktops in performance. And economies of scale doesn’t hurt either.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I get what you mean. Basically: what I’m trying to say is that desktop/non integrated CPUs are cheaper and this cost savings continues into a large form factor. Apple doesn’t put a desktop chip in their iMacs because they don’t make one. If they did it’d be 4x faster for the same price.