> they're doing it at a price point that's competitive compared to all of the companies out there
I think they're blowing all their competitors out of the water with the price point. It's not just a 10-20% difference in price anymore.
I think they're blowing all their competitors out of the water with the price point. It's not just a 10-20% difference in price anymore.
I do however image that the performance per watt will be really good.
> That's kinda crazy, and they're doing it at a price point that's competitive compared to all of the companies out there.
Having a clever reason to justify how it was intentionally designed to be slower doesn't change the fact that it's slower.
Apple is great at other things and you do get other benefits when you buy an Apple computer, the performance/dollar just isn't one of them for desktop. Even for laptop, the M1 was the first time they were completive on that metric.
That's a narrative which I think has been proven to be not true for quite some time? If you look at the prices of Windows ultrabooks from brand names, they have been at the same level as Mac laptops for many, many years.
Likely mostly running the same workloads such as web browsing.
> ... and run different software.
Maybe if Apple wrote it. Otherwise you can run the same Chrome/Firefox, Photoshop and Office on a Windows or even Linux Machine. Most software is shared between platforms nowadays with posix/windows being the lowest common denominator in terms of "cross platform".
Same goes if you prefer pages to word. Or software from Panic vs something else. The thing is if you’re most comfortable ale and productive on MacOS unless you build a hackintosh you need to buy a Mac and pay the mac tax but you get a whole integrated thing
Maybe not, but 32GB RAM + 512GB SSD for $2k is a pretty competitive price point.
https://www.newegg.com/seagate-2tb-firecuda-530/p/N82E168202...
Find me a 1TB SSD that perform as fast as Samsung 980 Pro and is much cheaper. Say under $125.
Then you have to add on motherboard ($1k), case ($200), cooling ($200), psu ($200).
Even if you cut a few corners, you are still over $8k for equivalent performance, and a substantially larger form factor. Yeah, you can upgrade, etc, but thats not really the point of the exercise.
That said, if you can think of speccing it another way, id be interested, as im looking for a decent workstation build that is x86.
Not only on price point but also performance per watt. The M1 laptops were a game changer on that front, and I expect the M1 Ultra to be the same.