| ▲ | osmukka 3 hours ago |
| Reading this press release was almost physically painful, because of how much Apple loves to use the phrase "up to". In total it appears 46 times. |
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| ▲ | addaon 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| A lot of those "up to"s are expressing user options, though -- "up to" 512 GB RAM means that there are configurations that include that, but also cheaper configurations that don't. That's a pretty different beast than "up to 4.3x faster performance", which means (presumably) that exactly one benchmark showed a 4.3x improvement and the rest showed less -- which is to say, means very little. |
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| ▲ | freehorse 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Except for the prices of course, where they use “starting at 5,499$” instead of “up to 18,299$” to indicate user options. | | |
| ▲ | seviu 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The cleaning cloth went down in price about 50% There is some consolation there | | |
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| ▲ | theanonymousone 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| up to 46 times, you mean? |
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| ▲ | zirkonit 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Up to 47. | | |
| ▲ | alfanick 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That would be oddly precise. More like "up to 50", or depending on speaker, "up to 100". /s | | |
| ▲ | fwip 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It would also be incorrect. "Up to" doesn't mean any possible upper bound, it describes the top of a known range. I can't say a car I'm selling goes "up to" 900mph if it tops out at 120mph. | | |
| ▲ | atoav 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, depends. Maybe it can go up to 900mph¹? ¹ drivers are responsible to get the car into a low earth orbit themselves and need to be familiar with the orbital maneuvers needed to accelerate the car to 900mph |
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| ▲ | totetsu 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Whats an up to dog? |
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| ▲ | gib444 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's probably up to 300% of an increase from 'previous' press releases |
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| ▲ | setgree 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I enjoyed "up to an 80-core GPU, and a staggering 512GB of unified memory" Staggering?? I can count on no hands the number of times that a fact or figure has caused me to stagger. |
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| ▲ | mgfist 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Idk 512GB of (essentially) ram is pretty damn insane for a consumer machine | | |
| ▲ | setgree an hour ago | parent [-] | | This thing is going to cost >$10K, probably, which I think means it's not in the consumer segment |
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| ▲ | HumblyTossed 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, but you've surely met people who giggled when they read that. |
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