Charlie Stross2d ago

HYPOTHESIS: while Moore's Law dominated performance in laptops, the rule was "cheap, fast, low power—pick any two".

Moore's Law is coming to an end. The Macbook Neo says "why choose?"

Nobody needs a laptop with a 40 hour battery life. Nor does anybody needs 200 cpu threads and an AI coprocessor and 256Gb of RAM and 8Tb of SSD. So we're finally seeing the sweet spot in the phase diagram drift inexorably towards the corner labelled "cheap".

Show threadMalcolm Herbert
@cstross ... an actual honest-to-goodness 3.5mm headphone jack ... weren't Apple the ones that started the obnoxious trend to eliminate those? totally makes sense for an item at this price point, recognising that not everyone can afford the $200 bluetooth headsets ...
Mar 24 at 9:07pmWeb
Show threadMalcolm Herbert2d ago
@cstross hmmm ... I am tempted ... I had a 14in Macbook Pro back in the day and OSX/Darwin was a sweet OS to do things in ... my chuck-about console device is a horrendously underpowered Asus flip notebook/tablet thing, so a refresh on that has potential ...
Show threadTubemeister2d ago
@mherbert @cstross You’re thinking of phones. The laptops still have them.
Show threadMalcolm Herbert2d ago
@Tubemeister @cstross ah, true ...