Or turn it around: why the fuck are people buying phones with such powerful CPUs?
To do fancy photo editing in high def instantly.
Not to mention AI photo editing.
Don't really need it for text messaging,
or even for streaming video and games.
I guess.
Why do you assume that this iPad with an iPhone CPU would run macOS? Seems to me if they use an iPhone CPU you'll get an iPhone OS (iOS)...
Because they are saying it is not an iPad, but rather a "Macbook", and Macbooks run MacOS, not iPadOS?
The CPU in the iPad is perfectly capable of running MacOS, but it doesn't, because it's an iPad. If you stick that CPU in a Macbook, it will run MacOS. Because that's what Macbooks run.
Ir's not an iPad.
We already have those.
, yeah your phone + desktop display probably gets the job done. Anything more than that and you're better off with a higher spec device.
If I have to lug around a screen (and full keyboard),
might as well call it a laptop. And the CPU is not the
issue anymore: the hungriest apps are not going to be
the "desktop" apps, it's the "mobile" apps that it's
already running.
Why not do something like having a MacOS hypervisor running in the background, that would activate when the phone was docked? Thereby giving the user a desktop experience on their phone and would revert back to iOS when in mobile mode....
Now fix the keyboard and make the screen fold out
to be about double the iPad size, and increase the
storage significantly... and you get the device they
are advertising (except unfortunately the screen
and keyboard don't fold and not touchscreen mode).
Maybe 6 years from now, though.
Why not just plug your phone into a monitor/keyboard/Ethernet dock via a Thunderbolt connection?
That would work, except the SSD is too small,
the screen is too small, those aren't full keyboards,
and uh oh yeah WRONG OPERATING SYSTEM.
Phones won't run 90% of the apps I use.
But CPU-wise, it would be plausible.
Because for a long time a big part of the value proposition of a mac was being able to do a mid-life upgrade on HD and RAM to be able to stretch its useful life to ~6-7 years.
My main computer is a Mac Mini from 2009.
Does everything I need, including my little
software development projects.
Syncs with my (new) iPhone and iPad.
The only problem with it is no (security) updates.
But I run Firefox, live behind it's firewall, and the
most dodgy thing I ever do is trust the Python repos.
I'll upgrade when the main board someday croaks.
At which point I'll buy another one (maybe new,
maybe a has-been refurb off Ebay), plug my Time Machine
drive into it, and pick up where I left off the day before.
So that's 20 years with no upgrade.
Friends of mine have similar aged Macs.
I'm trying to figure out why the fuck anyone would want to buy this thing in the first place?
If you want something with the power of a phone....buy a fucking phone....no?
CPU power is not the issue. I would buy one to
have a device with a full keyboard and the ability
to run arbitrary (not App Store) programs.
This under-powered laptop will run all these
things just fine: Emacs, Audacity, VLC, Firefox,
Google Earth, LibreOffice, Zoom, and the native
MacOS apps including Mail, Music, and Preview.
It should also do fine with SBCL (Lisp compiler)
and databases like Sqlite (and my little programs).
It will do XCode and GCC for all the Linux apps
that I use: mostly utilities from Homebrew.
I also run Wine for a few little Windows apps.
That's everything I ever do, and it will all happen
with the Apple ecosystem that seamlessly syncs
(Photos, Contacts, Notes, etc.) with my iPhone
and iPad. No heavy lifting required. I bet it will also
have the AI chip and modem that the others have.
Sounds perfect.
Americans seem to think Chinese are stupid, but the evidence shows otherwise.
Nobody thinks they are stupid.
We think they are inscrutable.
Ah, so, dats four shure!
Can we have ice skates with LEDs powered by current from the pressure differential across the blade?
No. Differential Pressure most likely refers to Bernoulli's Principle, but that is not how ice skating actually works. It is the explanation often given, but it's incorrect. The skate flies over the ice simply because your foot is pushing against the ice. There is some melt happening but that does not involve the laminar flow to create lift. However, when the pressure of the ice moving against your blade equals the pressure of the ice going into your skull is equal, we call that an aerodynamic stall which is why you stopped skating. This can happen when your feet slide past each other at the Nyqist Frequency.
Dive Deeper Into AI Mode
So ice planets are intelligent, is what you are saying. Very interesting.
All these ice worlds are yours, except Europa.
Attempt no landing there.
What's wrong with using Greenland to charge an electric vehicle?
Jesus Christ, it's right there in the name!
A natural resource screaming to be used.
Annex the island, save the planet.
people around you are bothered by it.
They will be relieved that you are gone: you are a burden to them, and they will actually be glad. You are doing them (and yourself) a favor.
They will be upset for a moment, but those tears they shed are actually tears of joy.
It's not considered polite to say that out loud.
But deep down you know it's true.
I feel suicide is bad for one obvious reason. It cheapens the massive value of life itself. And that directly affects those of us who value life greatly.
The value of life is highly overrated by snowflakes like you. The main thing about life is that it is cheap to create, which is why it's only "purpose" is to make more life.
Suicide away, folks. Don't worry, we'll make more!
Yes, as foretold by Futurama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
When historians used the word “foretold” in reference to something of historical value, do you ever wonder if they were referring to a fucking cartoon?
Not everything is meant to be prophetic. Not even as a joke.
Most science fiction (such as Futurama) is pointedly intended to be both reflective of current events, and prophetic. (Like any morality play.)
So bite my shiny metal ass!
If you're talking about kids though, parents generally don't want their kids to off themselves.
They do not want to be deprived the pleasure of strangling them, themselves...
Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
