> the only actual performance most consumers are likely to notice
Remember when Apple made the Power Mac QUAD, to indicate that the system had FOUR processors, because "men should not live of single thread performance alone"?
> "With quad-core processing, a new PCI Express architecture and the fastest workstation card from Nvidia, the new Power Mac G5 Quad is the most powerful system we've ever made," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in a statement.
Of course they can't advertise the multi core performances, because they are lower compared to similar systems, just like with the Power Mac they could not advertise that the system was greener, because it wasn't.
The multicore performance is good for a portable, because background threads can run on the efficiency cores without making the whole system thermal throttle. Intel can't do that.
Not right now, but the upcoming Intel thing will combine Atom cores and Core cores (lol) like that.
AMD is the one left without an "efficiency core"… but I wouldn't be that surprised if they somehow manage to squeeze almost the same efficiency out of just low power modes on the same Zen core, which would leave them with better multi-core performance as usual.
1 - Apple is not going to enter the server market ever again, especially not the generalist cloud infrastructure
2 - 90% of the laptops sold Worldwide aren't Apple laptops, most of them are sub $500 laptops.
Amazon best selling is ASUS Laptop L210 Ultra Thin Laptop, 11.6” HD Display, Intel Celeron N4020 Processor, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage priced at $199
Basically only Mac users who upgraded to M1 are going to notice the difference
I tried a variety of Google searches, but I can't find information specifically narrowed down to Apple's share of the notebook/laptop market in the U.S. Can you help me?
> 2 - 90% of the laptops sold Worldwide aren't Apple laptops,
This is perhaps the wrong metric to look at. What % of total profit is Apple capturing? Several years ago the accepted wisdom in phones was that Apple was getting ~30% of the unit volume and 90% of the profit.
> Apple achieved a global desktop/laptop market share of 9.6% and ranked fourth behind Lenovo, HP, and Dell. In the United States, Apple accounts for 12.7% of the PC market
AFAIK in Germany they can ask you to submit your banking history for tax purposes (for example they have doubts about your declaration), if you fail to submit it or refuse, they can go to the bank, but you are notified way before they go through the bank and if you comply with the request, they don't go to the bank at all.
Also the request must be authorized by the state tax office, it's not like every government employee can request and obtain the list of all of your transactions.
quick googling would show that your knowledge on this is dated (laws changed in mid 2000). See linked article[1] (or many other articles like it - it was a huge topic at the time creating much outrage).
The bank will not be informed of the invasion of privacy (the excuse is so that banking customers don't have any negative impact when they realize customers get probed - it's probably more to avoid spooking the public about the frequency of how often this happens).
> Also the request must be authorized by the state tax office, it's not like every government employee can request and obtain the list of all of your transactions.
you're mistaken. These are the organs which have automated access (in addition to the IRS):
- social services
- job center
- bailiff
- state attorney
- customs authorities
it's designed to put pressure on low income groups in society, while the HNWI's and corporate big fish can cloak themselves with an armor of impenetrable offshore tools[2].
As a payment system must comply with local laws in order to operate legally, GNU Taler must be designed to comply with these requirements. GNU Taler must provide an audit trail for investigators operating under the law. Furthermore, we consider levying of taxes as beneficial to society, and fair taxation requires income transparency. Thus, GNU Taler must enable authorities to track income
Which makes a lot of sense.
Privacy of buyers is protected from the merchant, that doesn't imply that the payment is untraceable (or that complete secrecy is necessary).
> Also it performs at 10W, not at 15W and does so without a fan (in the case of the MacBook Air
The comparison is with a Mac Mini that uses a fan.
15W is not far from 10W, considering Ryzen are still 7nm
IMO even 35W is not much at all, for 18 hours on battery and that kind of performances (especially the multi core).
The difference is negligible for users, assuming 8 hours a day for 365 days straight the 15W APU would consume 15KW more, in Italy it would cost about one euro more.
They have been at war for 2 centuries like much of Europe.
Depending on who you ask, Ottomans were their allied or their enemies in Scandinavia, at times they have been both like Denmark allied of Ottomans against Russia that then switched side and sided with Russia that gave them land from Sweden.
There were big differences between Scandinavian countries and they have been at war for a long time.
Denmark for example owned Ghana, like Belgium owned Congo.
They were richer than say Finland.
France has been involved in less wars during the same time span.
Another example: Spain and Portugal weren't bombed during WW2, they were not occupied, they stayed mostly neutral, but didn't develop an high trust society.
Remember when Apple made the Power Mac QUAD, to indicate that the system had FOUR processors, because "men should not live of single thread performance alone"?
> "With quad-core processing, a new PCI Express architecture and the fastest workstation card from Nvidia, the new Power Mac G5 Quad is the most powerful system we've ever made," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, said in a statement.
Of course they can't advertise the multi core performances, because they are lower compared to similar systems, just like with the Power Mac they could not advertise that the system was greener, because it wasn't.