Marco Arment

Not maybe glaring, glaring to me.

The one glaring to me failure of Apple Silicon is they could not figure out how to make a replacement for the biggest, fastest, hottest chip that would require a big case to cool.

They tried, they failed.

It's not a big deal to anyone except for me, but I still think they should shoot for that star.

I mean, obviously gaming.

I mean, I know people don't care about that.

And Apple's gaming performance is amazing, but gaming will also use all the transistors you can throw at it.

Like, you know, well, the frame rate is good, but could it be better?

Yes, it can always just, especially GPUs, they're so embarrassingly parallel and everything.

that would be another applicant.

Not that Apple's going to make an $8,000 computer to play games on or whatever, but that's an easy one.

But no, the AI thing is just such a no-brainer now because we are in such an early part of that curve where the models that everyone wants to use literally can't run on anything.

Even on a desktop, they can't run.

They only run on $60,000 NVIDIA rack mount things and probably multiple ones of those given how many tokens they use.

And

That's a place where we haven't been for so long, where there is a thing we want to do in computing that cannot fit on your desk.

And AI is currently that.

It cannot fit on your desk.

I mean, I guess it could if you spent a few hundred grand and put a rack there, but...

Like, it doesn't fit in a normal desktop computer of any reasonable size and dimension.