My love for both records is directly proportional to my complete indifference to the public conversation surrounding them I care as little about Frank Ocean’s sexuality as I do about Kanye West’s dick pics (although Kanye’s boundless narcissism makes indifference a kind of labor all its own). They’re both big albums which critically reflect on lifestyles usually celebrated by rap and R&B artists, and both records were released in the context of intense public scrutiny and discussion of their creators’ personal lives. It’s an inexact comparison, but one I find useful. People have already been comparing Channel Orange to Kanye West’s masterful My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). And then we’d listen to “Bad Religion” and cry. Like, how did Cleopatra end up in bed with Samson? If the song is a parable of lost innocence or elegance, why does Ocean’s narrator luxuriate so wantonly for the second half of the track? What’s with the cheetahs? And you’d remind me that great art explains itself, and mutter something about Inland Empire (2006) and the digital excavation of the Los Angeles underworld. Above all, I need someone to pause for a moment with me and consider just how thoroughly and magnificently strange this ten-minute behemoth really is. We’d probably have to get high, because this song doesn’t make a shit-lick of sense sober. Considering how hard Intel is hitting back, however, I would question that assumption.People want to talk about Frank Ocean, but I just want to listen to “Pyramids.” I’d listen to it with you if I could, together imagining cheetahs on the loose, watching each other’s knees buckle when the beat kicks in. Apple has already stated that they plan to shift to Apple silicon in its entirety in a few years but as far as we know, they did plan to offer the x86 option on certain product lines for a couple of years. This slide also begs the question of whether Intel is working on inside information, such as that Apple will not be shifting MacBook Pros to Intel's 11th generation processors (or maybe they will decide to go with AMD for now). Part of that has to do with the fact that Apple uses only AMD-based GPUs and their best MacBook is currently limited to RX 5600M - which loses to an RTX 3060 that you can find in Intel (or even AMD) based laptops. They provided a number of benchmarks - most of which were run on Bootcamp but even some native games and the Intel/Windows-based systems easily beat the MacBook ones. It would seem that Intel has decided to burn whatever bridges were left with Apple (although some would argue it was Apple that began the burning) and strike back just as boldly.
On a template, which appears to be clearly copying Apple's marketing language, they state that Intel laptops provide a "better gaming experience than 100% of Apple Mac laptops". What most people don't know is that they sneakily added in the following footnote on the M1 website, which is also completely contrary to the statement above:īut of course, this footnote didn't get nearly as much attention as the original claim and the M1 remains the go-to benchmark for mobility chips so it is no surprise that Intel has chosen to finally respond with some tongue-in-cheek marketing of their own. The M1 is nowhere near the fastest CPU core in the world but it *is* the world's most power-efficient core (which is quite impressive). Intel: provide a better gaming experience than 100% of Apple Mac laptops It also means that the Intel-Apple relationship is more or less over for all intents and purposes. Intel made the following statement during Computex 2021 and is something that would be a no-brainer to most tech enthusiasts but still needs saying. After what seems like eons, Intel legal has finally approved a message to fire back against the bold Apple claims made at the release of the Apple M1 (which were later amended by the way).