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Why no upgrade kit for Intel MP?  Chip Yields.  Apples only going to make so many of these great big bastards, and they will want to maximize the revenue they generate.  Even though TMSC have fantastic yield from this node, the surface area of the M1Ultimate (or whatever) means plenty of binning just to get a decent number of parts.

Not much chance of Apple buying up a big game developer—those are all sewn up now.  The exception of course is Nintendo, but I think they’d rather die than be bout out by an American corporation.  That leaves either an in-house solution, and/or the coalescing os several smaller iOS developers into a game house with much broader ambitions.  Apple might still throw a small fortune at Steam to backport some titles, but that seems like a long shot.

baconstang said:

If there's going to be ads, I like them random.  Sometimes I just click on weird ads to see how it changes my ad feed.
The last thing I want is to see a ton of ads for the same or similar thing I just bought.

If there’s going to be agitprop, I prefer it to be random.  Let the whole world see it so that it can be countered and neutralized rather than targeted and covert.

Fred257 said:

I’m, they already have a chip that’s faster then Apple Silicon.

https://www.gearnews.com/intel-alder-lake-mobility-chip-better-performance-than-apple-m1-max/

Let’s see them ship it, after all, we’ve been hearing “real soon now” for a very very long time.

Perhaps the will mirror the M1PRO/MAX Along two axis to build out the massive chips they seem to need for the desktop MacPro.  From what I’ve seen it looks like they might have been structuring it for this.  That being said, I’m no expert by any means.