>No massive CPU R&D budget.>Less engineering risk with each generation.>Faster access to Qualcomm's latest manufacturing advances.>More resources for AI, software, Vision products, and services.>Easier scaling across different Mac price tiers.>Qualcomm gains Apple's volume, improving ARM chips for everyone.>Lower long-term costs by avoiding a massive in-house chip division with thousands of specialized engineers and expensive design tools.>Focus on Apple's strengths: software, UX, ecosystem, and industrial design.>Reduced risk from chip delays, design mistakes, and manufacturing issues.>Silicon engineers could shift focus to AI, Siri, Vision, batteries, displays, health tech, and software quality.>Faster adoption of new standards like 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and NPUs.>Less competition for expensive chip talent from companies like NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm.>Less organizational complexity from running a full semiconductor operation.>Better use of R&D money by investing in software and new products instead of CPU design.>Better gaming support through a larger shared Snapdragon ARM ecosystem across Macs and Windows ARM PCs.>Apple could focus on making better products, not better transistors.>Easier cross-platform app optimization. (easier to sell)>Apple avoids becoming a semiconductor company.
Qualcomm is a trash company, deliberately gimping chips for years now.>almost all current snapdragons have AV1 support in the video decoding ASIC>switched off on 7-series snapdragons because fuck youThey literally flipped a hardware bit to turn it off. Fuck Apple but bless them for rolling their own hardware.
>>109249855There is marginal difference in codecs.
>>109249831Actually I respect Apple only because of their own CPU and GPU. Qualcomm is a shit jeet-infested dying company.
>>109249873>ignoring what I saidAlso no drivers on Linux. Again, matter of principle, but I absolutely despise Qualcomm.
>>109249891Wrong.>>109249908>Also no drivers on Linux. Again, matter of principle, but I absolutely despise Qualcomm.Again nobody gives a fuck about linux, and your retarded FOSS OS which is mostly for mentally ill neckbeards who have child porn on their computer. Yes, if apple used qualcomm ARM they would develop their drivers, DUH?
>4 trillion dollars company is stupid, and here is why:
>>109249831How would they keep people from making Hackintosh's?
>>109250652Hackintosh never hurt their business, it was always just nerdy people who like to fuck around. >t. running tahoe on amd 5600x and rx6800
>>109249831>>No massive CPU R&D budget.>>Less engineering risk with each generation.All of these savings would be consumed with the effort it takes to get THE FUCKING DOCUMENTATION AND BSP FOR THE CHIPS YOU PAYED FOR.
>>109249925>Wrong.NTA but that's not really a counter argument. They're incredibly incompetent and will repeatedly and aggressively fuck you over for making the mistake of spending money on their products. The only thing keeping them alive are cellular patents but companies playing that game come and go all the time.
>>109250864>They're incredibly incompetentYou're being dishonest again; Snapdragon Elite X2 is a solid chip. The real problem lies with Windows/Linux.
>>109250890>Snapdragon Elite X2 is a solid chipSure. And it doesn't fucking matter because you will never get a data sheet and the software they write to support is mostly broken on the good days you can even get a hold of that.It doesn't matter how good the chip is IF YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY USE IT.
>>109250797It sucks that hackintosh's last os version is the one with the ugliest ui
>>109250933Meh, you can disable liquid ass in accesibility to the point where ui is just flat color.>>109250930This isn't a Qualcomm issue; it's LINUX that's the real problem here. Windows on ARM does work, but it mostly runs poorly because Windows itself is pretty terrible garbage (just like x86 version) If Apple did in-house optimization for the latest macOS, it would run just as smoothly as the Apple Silicon version.I don't care about your qualcomm-linux grievances.
>>109249831>>Faster access to Qualcomm's latest manufacturing advances.except that Apple is always the first to TSMCs new node, kek
>>109250990>it's LINUX that's the real problem hereWhat the fuck are you talking about? Nothing runs better on ARM than Linux because the license forces vendors like Qualcomm to behave and actually publish source code if they want to support it.
>>109251012>Nothing runs better on ARM than Linux>Qualcomm to behave and actually publish source code Keep posting oxymorons you braindead retarded moron low IQ mongrel. There is like one specific laptop that works with linux (snapdragon elite x2 cpu). Nobody gives a fuck about linux(not a real company literally relies on other companies for coding contributions).
>>109249831The M-chips being so good is the only reason anybody gives a fuck about Macs nowadays. They would have just become even more irrelevant if they had used Qualcomm trash for their ARM Macs.
>>109251042>Nobody gives a fuck about linuxIs this bait?
>>109249831the whole reason M series chips aren't ass is precisely because apple did it themselves instead of letting a cucked 3rd-party delivery dogshit again (like powerpc and intel in the past)the PC industry is structurally incapable of delivering good hardware, because it's largely organized around pricing competition at the cost of quality and comfortthis is why webcams are (nearly) all shit, and this is also why printers are (nearly) all shityou see it even on this board: people would praise a shitter version of a laptop if it was $890 instead of $950 (or some equivalent minimal difference) even at the cost of a dogshit constructionso apple would be stuck buying from manufacturers that don't give a fuck and see every single dollar of cost as a problem, and the M series would have been just as shit as all the other ARM desktop chips out therewith this instead, apple can charge significantly more, which their market will tolerate, and still make their margin even on top of way higher base costs
>>109251146You have essentially built a strawman, and decided that they are trash because they refuse to provide free drivers for linux. Stop being delulu tranny troglodyte.If Qualcomm developed chips for Apple MacBooks, it would be a partnership with internal engineers, not merely dependent on FOSS github trannies . Similar how Windows ARM-Qualcomm relationship works (even x86 windows sucks it's not qualcomm issue)>>109251129Lol, snapdragon elite x2 is great chip issue is windows/linux. Benchmarks DON'T lie.
