Yes. And instead of taking advantage of that they shrunk the battery to have thinner tablet instead of better battery life.
Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip
Alto@kbin.social 6 months agoThe primary benefit for the average consumer tends to be longer battery life due to the same task using less power, in theory anyway.
WereCat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
bamboo@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The 13” version actually has a larger battery than its predecessor.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
The primary benefit is they can now include RAM and GPU on die to increase the SKU cost for consumers.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sure but my iPad already lasts a week on a charge.
Alto@kbin.social 6 months ago
Sure, if you use it for an hour a day, you're not gonna notice it much. And I'm not disagreeing that a lot of the software sorely needs to be improved. The people who are going to notice aren't you. They're the ones using their devices all day for work or similar.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I spend about 10 hours a day doing “real work” - computer programming, on a desktop Mac with an M1 chip. It’s way faster than I need.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Well that was apple’s exact argument when they would not release phone cpu specs back in the day. “It’s not relevant” they would say, as the whole experience is faster. It’s really just whatever suites their marketing people. Slowed down your phones, oh, we got caught. But, it’s a FEATURE, and so we don’t get dragged through lawsuites, we’re adding it as an OPTION. Look, the M4 looks great. But any spin they put on anything, I just take it with a grain of salt.