Charlie Stross1d 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".

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@cstross I did wonder what Apple was going to do with the “our base CPU is more powerful than most people need it to be” problem besides render the UI through a VFX pipeline.
Mar 24 at 9:15pmWeb