We have different definitions of what amounts to R&D expenses. Just look at the regular stuff like the tooling for a new case - we have lots of that, and that stuff is expensive. Mouses, keyboard, displays - nothing stood still. It's normal and a positive thing that the field became more stable after a while, like that all the alternative processor architectures vanished. Until now of course.
> Apple can add what they want - and leave out what they don't need. Not just in the CPU but ANYWHERE in the system now.
Yeah. The "courage" headphone jack company can now make even more decisions I will disagree with and create unupgradeable systems that are unrepairable. Can't even change the ram in those things, pure throwaway garbage. Apple is the very last company I want to be in a decision making position over my desktop system. This is not a positive development.
And yes, they have thunderbolt, but you can't run GPUs with those ports. How useful.
> Otherwise why bother with Apple Silicon? If you can't have such a stark difference that detractors will just look silly, then why bother?
Money. And being able to release new systems when they are able to, not when Intel gets something out of the door for once. Which is a plus on its own, they won't and do not need to be radically different.
> Apple can add what they want - and leave out what they don't need. Not just in the CPU but ANYWHERE in the system now.
Yeah. The "courage" headphone jack company can now make even more decisions I will disagree with and create unupgradeable systems that are unrepairable. Can't even change the ram in those things, pure throwaway garbage. Apple is the very last company I want to be in a decision making position over my desktop system. This is not a positive development.
And yes, they have thunderbolt, but you can't run GPUs with those ports. How useful.
> Otherwise why bother with Apple Silicon? If you can't have such a stark difference that detractors will just look silly, then why bother?
Money. And being able to release new systems when they are able to, not when Intel gets something out of the door for once. Which is a plus on its own, they won't and do not need to be radically different.