In reply to <a href="https://macdailynews.com/2020/04/23/macs-powered-by-5nm-apple-a14-processors-coming-next-year/#comment-2190931">Man_in_PA</a>.
Hi. Hope you and your love ones are doing well, especially through these crazy times.
Notes:
1) I’ll use the abbreviation DHL to refer to Dell, HP and Lenovo.
2) While your comment is more about refuting that “no 1st tier vendor implements the latest and greatest that Intel has to offer at once through all its product line”; the main subject here is not about winning the bragging rights of “leading edge”; it’s about determining the importance of controlling the design of critical components (two of these being the CPU and the OS) and which company is better positioned to do so.
As I commented before, DHL may have a faster CPU product refresh cycle on PCs than Apple does on the Mac; but there’s a reason for that and it’s not necessarily always a good thing.
The PC business model is based on horizontal
