By: Peter Lewis (peter.delete@this.notyahoo.com), June 3, 2022 1:19 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
> Apple was especially bad with updating Macs in the last few years of x86 (in hindsight, they
> were probably busy getting ARM Macs ready) but they were still gaining market share.
Apple can thank Microsoft and Windows 10 for that.
> if Apple Silicon was able to get a 10% or 20% advantage that wouldn't be enough to switch the other direction.
I completely agree. Apple Silicon will need enough of a performance advantage that you don’t need Geekbench to notice the difference, especially since Macs are more expensive. It could be something like high-quality on-device speech recognition, maybe combined with real-time language translation and text-to-speech. There was an awesome demo of this at GTC 2021, using an Nvidia product called Maxine, which also includes real-time video synthesis:
youtube.com/watch?v=3GPNsPMqY8o
> were probably busy getting ARM Macs ready) but they were still gaining market share.
Apple can thank Microsoft and Windows 10 for that.
> if Apple Silicon was able to get a 10% or 20% advantage that wouldn't be enough to switch the other direction.
I completely agree. Apple Silicon will need enough of a performance advantage that you don’t need Geekbench to notice the difference, especially since Macs are more expensive. It could be something like high-quality on-device speech recognition, maybe combined with real-time language translation and text-to-speech. There was an awesome demo of this at GTC 2021, using an Nvidia product called Maxine, which also includes real-time video synthesis:
youtube.com/watch?v=3GPNsPMqY8o
