Marco Arment

a standalone Intel or AMD CPU and a standalone AMD or Nvidia GPU, like the total amount of heat dissipated by like those discrete components versus the total amount that Apple's chips dissipate to do the same job.

Like, that's miraculous.

Like, that's why I'm saying, like, you've done it, Apple.

You have chips that use very little power and do amazing computation.

You're able to put in its thing the size of the Mac Studio, something that competes with stuff that requires a giant tower case.

imagine what you could do with that exact same check and just put twice as much in and make it twice as hot.

Like I don't want them to say, throw power to the side.

I want them to use their power efficiency to say, this means we can put more GPU cores in.

This means we can add, because I mean, maybe some more CPU cores, maybe they've used too many, although Threadripper would say there's still room for more CPU cores.

there's always room for more gpu cores like there's always room for that and so take advantage of this amazing technology you have especially with the chiplets because before you could say well that's all well and good but they're already making the biggest possible chip they can because they do combine cpu you know it's because it's an soc they're already at the limit but now they're not at the limit anymore at the very least the limit should have just doubled because they have they're doing separate dives for the cpu and gpu so

Fingers crossed for the future.

But I agree with you, Casey, that I think they could do great things.

But I think the reason they can do great things is because they're never going to ignore power efficiency.

And that's an advantage that lets you put more stuff in before you run out of like whatever the maximum wattage is for a tower computer.

Yeah, for your outlet in your North American 15 amp circuit.

Yeah, and they're not even close to that.

The studio dissipates so little heat.

It's so tiny.

It does have fans, but it's so tiny and so quiet.

It dissipates so little heat, and it's competing with these giant PC towers with 1,000 fans and a 900-watt power supply or whatever.