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0 pointshospitalJail2y ago0 comments

"AMD says AMD is the best." Wow, I'm so surprised. I also think I am the best(/s).

I still find this compute per watt thing such a silly thing for any company to care about. Until Apple did it, it was not on anyone's minds. Once Apple did it, they dumped a bunch of money into marketing a metric that no one cared about; and now people pretend to care about it.

Not to mention this obsession with CPU that I just cannot grasp. Not sure what industries this is the bottleneck.

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dhruvdh2y ago

The sheer audacity to claim no one cared about perf/watt before Apple. More like you did not know what it is before you consumed Apple marketing.

heavyset_go2y ago

Poe's law strikes again.

> Until Apple did it, it was not on anyone's minds.

This is too on the nose.

Macha2y ago

VR (sorry, "spatial computing" now, Apple doesn't do anything that can be dismissed as a gaming peripheral now..) is another recent example.

acheong082y ago

Laptop users exist

kalleboo2y ago

Apple started talking about Performance per Watt in 2005, 18 years ago. It was their stated reason for switching from PowerPC to Intel.

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