so it's been quite a few months since we got the first round of apple silicon max and they've
been a smashing success by all metrics so i figured that today we should go back in
time to look at some absolutely terrible apple silicon hot takes that have aged like milk so i
did some digging and i also asked you guys to send me some stuff over on twitter by the way
follow me at lukemiani and we came up with a really interesting list of very amusing
tweets comments and articles about apple silicon from either during or before apple's
announcement at wwdc last year and we're gonna see just how poorly these comments have aged
so it's no secret that apple has its naysayers people are always writing articles about how
apple is doomed because they didn't make the new iphone round enough or something stupid like
that and with the switch to apple silicon let's just say that that sort of went into overdrive a
little bit and i figured now that the transition is well underway and has been honestly really
really smooth it would be funny to sort of go back in time and look at what people thought was gonna
happen specifically the people that thought it was gonna be a disaster like for example this
headline what if apple's new mac chips are trash microsoft's surface notebooks could stand to gain
if apple stumbles in transitioning from intel to its own mac chip design ooh yeah that core
i3 microsoft surface with four gigabytes of ram that cost nearly a thousand dollars is looking
really really tempting now that there's a fanless macbook air that outperforms
15-inch macbook pros and those really effective and well-received commercials are proof of that
i love my games so a lot of these hot takes actually come in the form of youtube comments
that i found on my previous videos specifically there were two that i looked at one of them
was my video immediately after wwdc last year where i posed the question whether or not you
should continue to buy intel max while we were waiting to see what the first apple silicon max
were going to end up being and the comment section had some very interesting hot takes active cooling
apples still can't figure out how to adequately cool intel silicon after more than 10 years
so i think this person was hypothesizing that apple silicon would run hot which obviously
it does not the first intel max were introduced in january 2006 the first version of mac os 10 to
drop support with snow leopard that was released in august 2009. that should give you an idea about
the potential lifespan of any new intel mac bought today no so this one i guess you could
say hasn't fully aged because we don't know how long current intel macs are going to be supported
but the transition was very very different you really can't compare 2006 and 2021 when
it comes to os support because apple wasn't releasing major os versions every year back then
2006 was when apple was still charging for software updates not to mention that the
mid-2000s were a period where computers were becoming obsolete in less than five years
apple silicon will be a nightmare during its early years buy intel mac whilst you still can
both of those sentences have aged pretty poorly because apple silicon so far really hasn't been
a nightmare there have been fewer initial issues with apple silicon max than with previous intel
max i think that's pretty safe to say and that's even including software compatibility almost
everything that you could run on an intel mac will still run on an apple silicon one and sometimes
even if it's running through rosetta it's still faster there have been some x86 casualties but it
has been far from a mess not to mention the fact that buying intel whilst you still can
would have ended up costing you quite a bit of money as they have depreciated pretty severely
here's a screenshot that i've been sitting on for like a year now apple silicon can never be pro
it's a reduced instruction set people just don't understand what the difference between arm and x86
is x86 focused on complicated variable length instructions that could have
more than one operation whereas risk uses fixed length instructions that can perform one operation
with enough time and good enough chips which are clearly had both by x86 and arm manufacturers
there's really not a ton of difference that would actually be noticeable to the end user so
to say that it's not pro is nonsense wow these hot takes are really bad so far i'm
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wait for our max to drop and buy the intel max at a heavy discount while apple tries to get rid of
old inventory this one isn't as much an apple silicon bad hot take although clearly they've
underestimated how compelling apple silicon max would be this is mainly just a lack of
understanding at how manufacturing computers works when apple is going to be releasing a new product
the one that it's replacing is going to scale down in production so that they're not you know
going full steam ahead and then all of a sudden left with warehouses full of unsold
imacs that's not really how it works there's also this very clickbaity and wordy article from
around wwdc time called when apple moves mac to arm is it time for mac users to move to windows
wow what a what a logical leap in that one huh within the next seven years he's saying oh no
intel computers will be obsolete that's not really saying a whole lot most computers right now are
going to be slow or obsolete in seven years and from saying that he's gonna have to replace intel
max he brings up the question when hardware needs to replace it becomes a natural time to
consider alternatives that in turn opens the door to the question of upgrading not to a mac but to
windows that is an argument that you could make at any point in time when buying a new computer
that has nothing to do with apple silicon whatsoever but while that article is clickbait
it pales in comparison to these words given by maung chief executive editor of pcworld who says
let me just say it out loud okay apple is full of it i'm referring to apple's claim that it's
fanless arm-based macbook air is faster than 98 of pc laptops apple is claiming that the new
macbook air using the m1 chip is faster than 98 of all laptops sold this year does that mean that
this new fanless macbook air is faster than asus's stupidly fast ryzen 4000 base geforce rtx 2060 g14
or the alienware area 51m wow what a stinker of a take it's kind of like saying look at this i
bought the fastest production car that you can buy right now and then the pc bag guy goes oh but what
about f1 cars they're faster than that yeah that's why i specified production car it's different
this next batch of truly terrible hot takes comes from one of my
first ever apple silicon videos this was a video that i published back in 2019 that was entitled
arm max coming in 2020 so that was a little bit fortuitous but as you might imagine given that
that video predates the transition announcement by almost a year a lot of the comments were
a bit of a mess so you're saying that we are gonna pay about three or six grand for a glorified ipad
and with zero way to upgrade they would be obsolete as fast as their phones and
that's not good at all but oh well who knows well clearly not you dear commenter because
first of all obsolete as fast as their phones they're literally the longest lasting phones
that you could buy apple supports the iphone 6s which came out in 2015. so clearly that's
nonsense what kind of a price interval is three or six grand you're basically leapfrogging the entire
mac lineup not to mention the fact that are they assuming that it would be as powerful as an ipad
with no additional innovation okay this one's short and sweet end of apple as we know it i guess
this one's not wrong but not in the way that they intended it here's a good one please stop talking
about it it won't come in the next few years it's not practical oh sorry i won't come in the
next few years not practical not going to happen in a few years let's see how long ago was that
a one year ago nice all right buckle up this one is a doozy and it's gonna have to be a full
screener it takes intel and amd literally years to develop a new chip that's literally all they
do not to mention they spend decades perfecting their technique and manufacturing process
there's no way that you could convince me until it happens that apple could crank out new chips that
compete with the major players that quickly and as for workstation processors even amd and intel
struggle to update those very often so i don't see apple ever switching to that type of system
the fact is it's easy to take an arm processor and tweak it a tiny bit it's another thing to
take the basic architecture and scale it to something that competes with intel and amd
laptop and desktop processors there's a reason no one else has done it and i have high doubts that
apple will do it at all and if they do it's going to be about like the last time they tried to make
their own computer processors go how did that go again oh right the company almost went bankrupt
and they started using intel chips who what a mouthful and wrong in every possible way first of
all you can't be convinced until it happens well are you convinced yet second of all a lot of the
hot takes about apple silicon seem to be oh well apple just can't come out of nowhere and
make chips that are going to compete with intel and amd guess what folks it's not out of nowhere
they've been making chips for 10 years and that line that was saying no one else has done it
why should apple i mean who else but apple right they're the biggest richest company in the world
if anyone's gonna pour billions of dollars into chip development apple's the company to do it and
clearly it has started paying off for them this one's a fun one this is like going backwards a
lot of pro level applications aren't designed to run on arm architecture microsoft tried this with
windows rt no one bought them we may see a lot of developers and production creators switching
to windows or linux i guess did people then just not think that apple would have anticipated that
did they think that apple would just launch products with zero application support and
expect people to buy them of course they were going to anticipate that arm scales down but
i've never seen an arm chip with single threaded performance that is remotely similar to a 9900k
that did not age super well considering that the single core performance of the m1
is better than some of the beefiest processors that you can find so oops it is kind of fun
to look back on all these hot takes and see how in fact quite cold many of them
were some of them honestly weren't like far off like they got little bits of it right but just
had their general conclusion completely off and man it is really funny to look back on that and
see people were kind of freaking out over nothing it's sort of like when a new iphone comes out and
like last year when when we learned that we weren't going to have 120
hertz displays and everyone was like oh my god iphone 12 is ruined it's not that big a
deal people thought this transition was going to spell disaster and that nothing would work
and it didn't it was fine so i'm curious to hear what you guys think the least hot hot take was let
me know with a time stamp in the comments below and i'm quite curious to see your guys discussion
or any other bad hot takes that you saw that you think are pretty funny let me know that stuff in
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