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Axman6 t1_j58iqn6 wrote

When the M1 MBPs came out, one of the lead engineers at Twitter said that the improvement in compilation time for their developer’s was so impressive that the saved time would pay for the cost of the machines in less than 6 months in increased productivity. Compilation benefits massively from fast IO, particularly when you’re compiling locally with optimisations off to improve build times, and the disk and memory bandwidth improvement over the Intel machines is huge. Apple claim the new M2 MBPs compile Xcode projects 2.5x faster than the last Intel machines.

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AkirIkasu t1_j56gmga wrote

Honestly it's very doubtful that they would have been able to make enough of an improvement to make it successful. Most of the problem was the marketing, which really overpromised what it could do; they tried to pretend it was a virtual reality machine when in reality the most it could do was display low-resolution graphics with the illusion of depth and none of the core technologies needed for VR like head tracking or actual realtime 3D graphics.

It was more of a toy than anything else, and if it came out as a toy instead of a game system we would have thought of it as being much more successful.

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