@thecharleskerr I thought the same. Apparently how they use the ram is as equivalent to previous RAM offerings. Time will tell...

@aaronoleary ARM processors only output a small fraction of the heat of CISC CPUs like Intel. I think LinusTech found that Apple had to actually thermally throttle (underclock) the last-gen Pros (even with it burning my lap half the time). This has some active cooling, but that means they can totally overclock on demand (Macbook air has no fans at all). 20-hour battery life is no joke (and proves it's efficiency). It won't be for people like me yet (well, I'm eying the MacBook air maybe for office, messaging, and home usage), and those who want to run virtualization, run PC games, and have and develop for legacy apps. Some computationally intensive things like Image/Video/Sound might be okay with their ML chip (we will need to wait for benchmarks). It'll take a while for libraries for open-source stuff to be ported, but I imagine the iOS ecosystem will fill in some blanks nicely. In all, I think more competition will be great in the CPU ecosystem, and at least this merges the iOS and Pro products together, hopefully resulting for Apple better margins which they will pass down to us with better R&D and products (because you know they won't lower the price too much LOL). It also makes engineering less siloed between mobile/non-mobile. That's a plus too. I'm probably going to wait for benchmarks before I decide on anything. For most of us the longer we wait for our must-have apps to be ported over, the better.