This is such an odd submission, and a lot of the claims are bizarre and seemingly nonsensical. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding. Exchanges in it seem remarkably...fictional. It reads like a tosser peacocking LinkedIn post by someone desperately trying to scam some rubes.
It also seems like one of those self-aggrandizing things that tries to spin everything as a reaction to themselves, instead of just technology progressing. No, vapour chamber cooling isn't some grand admission, it's something that a variety of makers have been adopting to reduce throttling as a spec-sheet item of their top end devices. It isn't all about you.
And given that the base 17 doesn't have VCC, I guess Apple isn't "admitting" it at all, no?
And the CoreML v MLX nonsense at the end is entirely nonsensical and technically ignorant. Like, wow.
No one should learn anything from this piece. The author might know what they're talking about (though I am doubtful), but this pieces was "how to make an Apple event about ourselves" and it's pretty ridiculous.
And given that the base 17 doesn't have VCC, I guess Apple isn't "admitting" it at all, no?
It will be fun to see how hot the iPhone Air gets since it has the same chip as the 17 Pro (w/ one fewer GPU core), but a less thermally conductive metal and no vapor chamber.
I imagine it will be a lot like the MacBook Air, in that it just thermal throttles faster. It has the same chip as the Pro but will never seen the same _sustatined_ performance.
This will be one of those situations where we'll really miss Anandtech. Still can't believe that site died.
In the real world I doubt anyone will ever notice the difference, VCC or not. VCC only will materially affect usage when someone is doing an activity that will hit throttling, which is actually extraordinarily rare in normal use, and usually only comes into play in benchmarking. The overwhelming majority of time we peg those cores for a tiny amount of time and get a quick Animoji or text-extraction from an image, and so on. Even the "AI" usage on a mobile device is extremely peaky.
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This is such an odd submission, and a lot of the claims are bizarre and seemingly nonsensical. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding. Exchanges in it seem remarkably...fictional. It reads like a tosser peacocking LinkedIn post by someone desperately trying to scam some rubes.
It also seems like one of those self-aggrandizing things that tries to spin everything as a reaction to themselves, instead of just technology progressing. No, vapour chamber cooling isn't some grand admission, it's something that a variety of makers have been adopting to reduce throttling as a spec-sheet item of their top end devices. It isn't all about you.
And given that the base 17 doesn't have VCC, I guess Apple isn't "admitting" it at all, no?
And the CoreML v MLX nonsense at the end is entirely nonsensical and technically ignorant. Like, wow.
No one should learn anything from this piece. The author might know what they're talking about (though I am doubtful), but this pieces was "how to make an Apple event about ourselves" and it's pretty ridiculous.
It will be fun to see how hot the iPhone Air gets since it has the same chip as the 17 Pro (w/ one fewer GPU core), but a less thermally conductive metal and no vapor chamber.
I imagine it will be a lot like the MacBook Air, in that it just thermal throttles faster. It has the same chip as the Pro but will never seen the same _sustatined_ performance.
There is a difference because you can get an M4 Pro/Max and much more RAM with a MacBook Pro.
This will be one of those situations where we'll really miss Anandtech. Still can't believe that site died.
In the real world I doubt anyone will ever notice the difference, VCC or not. VCC only will materially affect usage when someone is doing an activity that will hit throttling, which is actually extraordinarily rare in normal use, and usually only comes into play in benchmarking. The overwhelming majority of time we peg those cores for a tiny amount of time and get a quick Animoji or text-extraction from an image, and so on. Even the "AI" usage on a mobile device is extremely peaky.