Comment on Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow
artyom@piefed.social 3 days agoThey 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.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days 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.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Yes as it turns out when your workload is 99999 idle applications, a larger number cores helps more than single core performance. SOCs don’t change that. They just reduce power and space usage at the expense of cost.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
It’s nothing to do with idle applications, you should really looke more into this because what you’re saying is simply misinformed.