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  • I get what you mean. What I’m trying to say is that desktop/non integrated CPUs are cheaper and this cost savings continues into a large form factor. Apple doesn’t put a desktop chip in their iMacs because they don’t make one. That’s not what their customer base needs. If they did it’d be 4x faster for the same price.

    And these arm chips are slower than x86. X86 is so much faster at least for single core performance which matters a LOT more for desktop use cases


  • An AIO is effectively a laptop without a keyboard. They’re functionally very similar (appealing to less power-hungry users). They’re just less mobile.

    Presumably it’s cheaper for apple to just put the integrated CPUs in everything because it’d be expensive to make another model.

    I garuntee you this trade off only makes sense for Apple. Other AIOs don’t always have the new laptop chips from Intel because it makes more sense to use the desktop one with all the space they have.