But my tshirt can't... yet!

2.66Ghz. Don't ask me how I remember this from 2006.

I mean pretty obvious. Can a 2004 Celeron run Fortnite, Genshin impact etc? No my phone can at 90ish fps on max settings lmao.

Phones these days are generally fast enough to emulate the switch, we’re far beyond that

Dude you got a dell! 👍

As I understand it, this is more interesting for manufacturers than for end users.

If you've been paying attention to the whole emulator handheld ecosystem (Anbernic, Miyoo, Retroid, etc), most of those run on Rockchip SOCs. A new Rockchip SOC coming out means there's gonna be a solid power jump in what those are capable of, which means we might finally see widely-available emulator handhelds that can do PS2 and Gamecube without issues.

Maybe from the year 2005.

But that's true of almost all modern phones.

My Galaxy Fold Z3 probably outperforms my 2004 Celeron 1.5ghz with 512 mb RAM computer.

Actually, it might have had 2.5 ghz. I can't remember. It was a Celeron D.

I don't think anymore is the word you're looking for.

It would make more sense in a context like "The rule that phones can't run Switch games is not valid anymore."

>..although I suspect the main draw is that the form factory is close enough to the Raspberry Pi Model B that it could be used as a drop-in replacement in some situations

Something that "just works" on a Raspberry Pi will take days/weeks of debugging to get working on a Radxa board. Maybe they are better now but I still have PTSD from using a Radxa board years ago. Can't beat the RPI ecosystem.

This little thing packs more oomph than full blown pc — crazy

Ya, people don't realize how old skyrim is, and/or how fast phones are nowadays.

I think the rule anymore is generally if it can run on a Switch it can probably run on your phone.

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Your phone can run Skyrim.

I sense wearable Skyrim in my future.

Right, exactly. And if I remember correctly from my days as an engineering student, there is a huge benefit in speed to having the memory physically close to the CPU, as it is in the M series processors. The same reason L1, L2, and L3 cache exist. The tradeoff is that it isn't user upgradable.

Yup, and people asking for upgradability in unified memory is like asking upgradability for graphics memory in Nvidia GTX 3080 or any other graphics card.

It's built in to the SoC right? If true, it's definitely not user upgradable, even if you have the ability to desolder and solder RAM.

my favorite use case to imagine is: you're walking down a city street looking at all the seemingly random people you're passing—but that guy on the left you've actually seen 36 times mostly every Thursday in this spot, and that woman in the right has been in the coffee shop back in your neighborhood with you 8 times this year

the social implications are weeiirddd, it could make big cities start to feel a lot smaller

Ugh. Zoomers.

It’s slang for affirmation or agreement. Like “for sure”, “okay”, “got it”.

I also work with 85-220mb photo files. Since early 2022 on a base M1 in Lightroom & Photoshop.
I put together 400 page books (3 so far) in Affinity Publisher on it.
Looking forward to picking up an M2 Macbook shortly.

I get your point; of course I could build a mega PC that would probably be faster. But if I'm able to do what I need to do, earn my living and create art on Macs, I see no real need to change.

That's the type of camera usually used, it's cheap and latency it's slow...

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Some Adobe products also used for things much simpler than video editing can choke on systems with low ram. So in your case there are physical chips on the board that make your application faster and the software takes advantage of it. In other industries the software is not optimized so it is heavily dependent on ram size and single core processor speeds. It’s nice you can make your little videos quickly but the same computer gets noticeably underwhelming on a one gigabyte graphics file over a network and not much faster on the internal drive. Not every Mac app is optimized for all the cores and Mac only features the hardware has. The same graphics program runs better on a PC because Adobe spends more resources optimizing it there so it runs more smoothly on slower systems. It’s the same trick Apple used on video apps to make them faster. What I was saying doesn’t apply to you so I wasn’t talking to you. I’m not complaining that my YouTube videos are slow on a stock machine. But it would be nice for a system that can edit 8k video also open and save a graphics file just as smoothly and not need to get one with max ram just to work on the big files. I use my intel Mac with more ram to open those when the M1 doesn’t cut it. I shouldn’t have to if apples minimum ram wasn’t still 8 gigabytes so they can upsell you on ram or planned obsolescence kicks in.