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manmal on Sept 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The $150M Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive

The M1 MacBook Air can run a whole day (and more) on one charge, but „only“ 5h when doing heavy development with Xcode. If you build a machine that lasts 2x as long with 10x the power, I‘ll pay at least 5x the price for that. Maybe 10x.

sgt101 on Sept 1, 2021 [–]

So - you want 20x the machine and you want to pay 5-10x.

This feels like a bad deal for Apple.

j245 on Sept 1, 2021 | | [–]

Why pay 5x ?

If you wait - you’ll get a 20x machine at current prices.

This is what Moore’s law is about ? I.e. Density (~= proxy for compute) doubling at some fixed period.

FredPret on Sept 1, 2021 | | [–]

Not if it costs Apple 1.1x

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