> Not being viable as your daily driver does not make it crappy.
What does it make it then? Some unicorn device that I'm unworthy of? Is there something wrong with my workload, or Apple's? Apple is marketing the M1 to computer users. I'm a computer user, and I cannot use it as part of my workflow, I have every right to voice that concern to Apple.
> And you see no reason to celebrate the first genuinely viable, power-efficient and fast non x86 CPU being a mass success.
You must be late to the party, ARM has been around for years. Apple's power efficiency is about on-par with what should be expected from a 5nm ARM chip with a gimped GPU. What is there to celebrate, that Apple had the initiative to buy out the entirety of the 5nm node at TSCM, plunging the entire world into a semiconductor shortage unlike anything ever seen before? Yeah, great job Apple. I think it was worth disrupting the global economy so you could ship your supercharged Raspberry Pi /s
> Also not sure why you wave away CPU bound workloads as though they don't exist or somehow lesser.
CPU-bound workloads absolutely exist, but who's running them on a Mac? Hell, more importantly, who's running them on ARM? x86 still has a better value proposition than ARM in the datacenter/server market, and most local workloads are hardware-accelerated these days. I really don't know what to tell you.
What does it make it then? Some unicorn device that I'm unworthy of? Is there something wrong with my workload, or Apple's? Apple is marketing the M1 to computer users. I'm a computer user, and I cannot use it as part of my workflow, I have every right to voice that concern to Apple.
> And you see no reason to celebrate the first genuinely viable, power-efficient and fast non x86 CPU being a mass success.
You must be late to the party, ARM has been around for years. Apple's power efficiency is about on-par with what should be expected from a 5nm ARM chip with a gimped GPU. What is there to celebrate, that Apple had the initiative to buy out the entirety of the 5nm node at TSCM, plunging the entire world into a semiconductor shortage unlike anything ever seen before? Yeah, great job Apple. I think it was worth disrupting the global economy so you could ship your supercharged Raspberry Pi /s
> Also not sure why you wave away CPU bound workloads as though they don't exist or somehow lesser.
CPU-bound workloads absolutely exist, but who's running them on a Mac? Hell, more importantly, who's running them on ARM? x86 still has a better value proposition than ARM in the datacenter/server market, and most local workloads are hardware-accelerated these days. I really don't know what to tell you.