This is still emulation though. It’s just a slightly novel format for them (the games in question are largely available on a number of other modern platforms.) It’s not the only way to get legal ROMs, but as a cartridge format that does limit what you can do with them. Sega for example sells Genesis/Mega Drive games…

It’s hardly projection. I’m talking about the experience being limited to what Apple allows it to be. I don’t have to use a Microsoft Surface in order to use Windows. They’re not even the most common Windows machine, let alone the only option.

Never owned one myself either, but when watching reviews and people who use them regularly there’s some things that definitely fit into the work flow. Stuff like pinching to zoom or unzoom, twisting to rotate. Looks like it supports that kind of thing but would be interesting to see it in action.

I was thinking mostly of Cintiqs as a comparison to the iPad.

I see it as an issue of dictating how computers are supposed to work. That’s what I don’t appreciate about Apple in particular. The “you’re using it wrong” sort of attitude.

If it were that easy to match AMD or nVidia in graphics performance I’d imagine there’d be more competitors. There’s also the matter of whether it’s worth them to try and produce something that competes on that level when it only serves a portion of the market they sell to.

You could probably make it different enough to get by. 8-bit sprites are hugely open to interpretation, as anyone who’s looked at the different box art for Japanese and Western games has seen.

Apple definitely does it on purpose. They like their high margins. But it also means never getting certain kinds of computers out of them, because they’re not as lucrative as the ones they do target.

I don’t really see Apple putting the M1 in every thing they sell as a solution for consumers. It just means that you’re essentially getting the same power computer in an iMac as you are an iPad Pro.

I’m curious what a Mac Pro even looks like with an M1. Their integrated graphics are good, but still below what a mid-level discrete card can do. If they can get away with throwing the same CPU into essentially everything they sell, how do they turn that into a professional desktop computer?

I guess it depends on what “fast enough” is. It’s a very solid integrated option, but it’s outperformed by even mid-range discrete hardware (which isn’t terribly surprising.)

Their integrated GPU is very good, but it caps out below even mid-range discrete video cards even on laptops. The gap is only going to grow when comparing desktop performance, since iMacs are still using the same chips as MacBooks while desktop graphics cards don’t have that problem.

There’s some professional overlap with iPads as art devices. They can compete in part because the field has largely been dominated by another company (Wacom) that produces almost exclusively “premium” products with a high cost of entry, and it’s only somewhat recently that decent competition has been able to really…

I think Apple has been building towards this kind of computer for a while. They’re not meant to be user accessible, and if something goes wrong it’s meant to be taken in and likely replaced entirely.

The lack of discrete video cards in all but the more expensive SKUs has generally kept me away from Apple, but I wonder how even those will work with the switch to Apple Silicon. What does an Apple Silicon Mac Pro look like?

The direction of Apple for a long while now just continues to confirm why I’ve never felt like they make computers aimed at me. I’ve had big clunky laptops when I needed to travel but always wanted to play video games on my computer. I’ve got a big glowy desktop right next to me now. What I’ve never needed though is…

Divorce it from being a commodity and you can still buy and sell stuff with it.

Why don’t authorities encourage people to seek out their own comfort level of efficiency, instead of limiting it?

Switch cartridges come in fixed sizes, like 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 16GB, 32GB. 32 is the current largest, but only a handful of games take advantage of it, because it’s also the most expensive.

The question is what do you want to do with your computer? If you just want to run your desktop at 4k and use it for general productivity you’re likely fine with just the integrated graphics.