not sure why someone downvoted you, it's a fact

This is incorrect. It is not scaling like the name suggests but they are definitely getting measurably smaller.

https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/logic/l_5nm

In fact, in order to “print” a transistor requires extreme UV light so that the wavelength is small enough that the fringing effects do not ruin the outline of the printed structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithography

It is very expensive and requires a lot of maintenance.

The smallest patterning is used for the transistors and the lowest metal layers. The higher metal layers still use regular UV optical pattern printing.

More transistors and higher clocks require more power.

About damn time.

The following numbers are not correct for this node But when new nodes come out you get stats like 20% more performance at same power Or 80% power at same performance These numbers come directly from the fabricators and do not take into account at hectare changes.

What you are still allowed to do is do is Use 20% more power and get 1.5x the performance

A+ Metaphor

I forget whether it was Steve Jobs or Tim Cook, but I remember one of them said that the reason Macs didn't have touchscreens was because "your arm would fall off" after using it all day.

Those companies will tell you they are collecting your data. Eufy said their cameras were local storage only (people shouldn't be required to know how push notifications get sent to their phones) then ended up not encrypting it to the point of users in other countries getting access to people's home feeds.

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Actual transistor sizes have hardly gone down in years now

they can't even blame hardware difference when they have the M2 processor in them now on the Pros!

>Im actually 29 without any kids so I don’t think that I qualify as a “pop.”

"Pops" is more of a state of mind. Some people die in their twenties but aren’t buried until they are 60.

>It clearly is the work of the devil because you’re complaining about it.

I complain about my legs as well. Sometimes my legs hurt. Doesn't mean it is the work of the devil and I won't to have it chopped off.

>The only reason why you need to have an iPad and MacBook pro is because you are materialistic and need to show it off. There are hundreds of different options out there for viable note taking. You don’t think it looks ridiculous when you take out a laptop AND an iPad in class? You don’t think others look at you and judge you and think why does this person need both? She can take notes on a laptop. She’s doing this to show off her Apple gear in class. This person has issues.

Sure pops. Now let's get you to bed.

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Just in case

I dont know how to tell you this pops but ipads are not as controversial as you think. We don’t think technology is the work of the devil anymore.

That's for 1 breaker though, an entire room is usually on 1 breaker, so better hope you've only got 1 pc in there

Thanks

They do, but new chips have billions more transistors and switch them faster, that drives power consumption up again.

I miss seeing SETI running on my dads P3 on a CRT as a kid. Walking past the office at 2am hearing the cpu making its noises, lights on the modem flashing, having the urge to fire up TFC or CS1.6 and dick around on well or 2Fort.

God I fucking miss those days.

I thought smaller transistor sizes were supposed to require less power, not more?

Yeah maybe it’s time to consider using something more ergonomic and less controversial. I think it’s called a pen and paper. Millions and millions of people have used this method in the past and it proved to work efficiently and it perfectly executes the same job as note taking on an IPad. it also weighs half the weight of an iPad.

I'm not so sure that theyll have separate UIs.

Apple's MacBook pros and iOS devices have been converging, and MacOS dock is pretty clearly designed for touch screens. I almost never use it to access apps since spotlight is way quicker and more convenient. Same goes for my iPhone - I no longer look for the app icon, I just search and open it from there.

As far as touch screen or no touch screen, I don't care as long as they're still producing high quality computers connected to their ecosystem, but they really could put engineering effort more useful places - such as improving testing and quality of their operating systems, making more robust hardware (they've been getting there with their phones, to the point where they literally advertised the iPhone 13 as able to handle a fall from a table), and countless other things.

Honestly, apple needs to be leading the way with conversion from electronics to optics. I led some of that research in the 20-teens and we have long been at a point where we could be replacing plenty of "bulkier" electrical components with optical ones.

That would be a way better use of their brain capital and workforce than adding a touch screen.

looks around nervously at 165V pc

HTC launching their new wireless set around the same time as psvr2, late Q1 2023, per CES