John Siracusa
speaker
28,145 appearances
45 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 2d ago
John Siracusa’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is not the right time to buy a new computer.
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It's from my perspective, you know, with my rule set, the way I buy computers, I'm always looking, is this the right time to buy?
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Is this the right, you know, with my TV, is this the right one to buy?
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Or should I wait till the next one?
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Or should I do it?
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Like, when is the right time to buy?
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For me, this is not the right time to buy a new computer on multiple fronts.
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Even before you get into the RAM and storage crisis with pricing, it's still not the right time to buy.
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Apple kind of agrees that it's not the right time to buy a new computer.
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Because Apple's like, hey, we think the M7 and the AI stuff we're doing, according to the rumors, the AI stuff we're doing in the M7 are so good that we are just...
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as Casey would say, poop canning the M6 Pro Max and Ultra just so we can accelerate the timeline on the M7s because we think we did such a good job on those that we want to get those out ASAP and just forget about the M6 Pro Max and Ultra.
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That's like unprecedented.
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And part of that is probably the RAM crisis and chip crisis and blah, blah, blah.
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But also, I feel like Apple...
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given the timelines on their chips, like the whole ascendancy of the importance of doing local inference and stuff on Macs, if you extrapolate that timeline backwards for typical silicon design timelines, it makes sense that the M7 is the first one that's like, oh, no.
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local inference like that's like that's where all we need to spend our transistors and the rumor is the m7 is really good at that this is exactly the wrong time to buy a new powerful computer because apple itself according to the rumors is like yeah our our good our good super powerful computers this isn't it it's great that we upgraded it's great that you know we never had the m4 ultra but now we have the m5 ultra and it's fine and it's good and it's better than the m31 and it is the best most powerful chip we have and if you need one right now now now this is the best we have so tough luck
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but the M7 would be the one that I would want to get.
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So I could clearly not choose the wine in front of me, Casey.
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So, all that said, it demands a specific strategy from me.
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What should I do in this situation?
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