Comment on Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow

• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Again, it depends on the workload. There are endless comparisons between high end desktops and comparably-priced Mac desktops, and while the PC is often more powerful, that’s not always the case , and the Mac does it while being much quieter, and not turning the room it’s in into a sauna.

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