Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple’s Biggest Threat: Qualcomm”.
Apple announced the M3 lineup uh, geekbench results have leaked and the Snapdragon X Elite looks pretty good. That’S uh, that’s not surprising. At this point, they’ve actually been doing a great job. The M series MacBooks have been crazy.
So, like that’s cool, you know what else is really interesting, though, is the Snapdragon X Elite? So that’s qualcomm’s, arm on Windows. Processor is within Striking Distance of the M3 MacBook Pro for single bench in geekbench or single core performance in geekbench and actually between an M3 Pro and an M3 Max, but slightly better in single core. Isn’T it no? It’S it’s right there. It’S like right on par. What am I doing wrong? What that yeah, that 2979 Les than that? Oh, I was looking at M3 Max MacBook Pro Y, so it’s right on par with the M3 for single-threaded, and then it’s right in between the pro and the max for multi-threading.
Am I excited about arm on Windows? That’S weird right. Is that even possible Luke? It’S weird right! I know I don’t know how to feel about this yeah um. In summary, you guys can watch our coverage of the event. Well, what I got games to play Luke. I can’t around here all day, honestly the second you said that I was like. I know why you said that exactly because this would be pretty long but yeah.
There’S a lot to talk about here and the News team did a great job of compiling. All of this for us – and we are really appreciative of that – the point is arm on Windows. Is it finally coming true after 12 long years or whenever the Surface RT launched, are you going to be super sad? Am I going to be sad yeah? Do you think they’re going to beip arm like where are you going with you think they’re going to be replaceable chips? Oh no they’re not going to be well yeah, but they already weren’t in laptops yeah, but they’re GNA come to desktop yeah. Ai was first but yes, you’re, right yeah, but then a lot of AOS already us these laptop chips, yeah yeah but they’re.
My whole point is about desktops, because now you’re going to get chip soldered to boards, then Rams coming next. Oh man, I’m about to get myself canceled again I cancelled yeah. I don’t even know what to be afraid of right now. I am less opposed to CPUs soldering soldered to boards than I probably was in the because the whole dream of upgrading the processor and keeping the whole motherboard never happens. Is that why I think my experience with thread Ripper kind of killed it everyone, I know, enjoys when they’re when they’re, when they people can be pissed everyone? I know when they’re specking out a computer enjoys being like this is a new motherboard generation. So it’s going to last like three more so I can upgrade the CPU and then the next time I talk to them, which is the next. This sometimes does actually happen, but the the next time I talk to them when they’re building a new computer they’re, replacing the motherboard anyways yes. Now with that said, the secondary Market is something that we can’t lose track of here. It’S really important to be able to pull the CPUs out of, like you know, Lenovo think stations, and you know uh, reuse, repurpose them for cheap gaming boxes in China or whatever.
We have a really cool video coming on a a gaming PC we bought for like $ 300 on tbal. That is kind of awesome that won’t be possible anymore, and that is terrible, also motherboard. Failure rates are, I Hazard to say, high because honestly they’re, not it’s just relative to a lot of other components in a computer, especially CPUs y they’re, they’re, really high yeah. I I I wouldn’t say honestly failure rate of anything in a PC. These days is actually High, um, I’m not trying to dog on motherboards and general, just like CPUs, basically never die and motherboards die fairly, often um so you’ll have you can you can get CPUs from like 15 years ago that are rock solid, still um and usually You just have to keep swapping out the motherboard um every so often .