Apple M3

aldous said:

The DP2.1 standard says that'll give you 92Hz for 8K uncompressed (what gets called "32-bit colour" is really 24bits/pixel) so that seems in the right area.

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Vision Pro exceeds 92Hz (though at <8K equivalent - a bit more than a 6K display), and 32-bit color is 24 bits for color and 8 bits for transparency, which Vision Pro will use. It's a tradeoff - my assumption is that moving processing off-device doesn't give you meaningful reductions in headset weight vs the technical hurdles it raises. Add in that the endgame is processing on-device, so if you can do it now, you do it now, especially given that the competition (such as it is) is already there. I don't know if Apple will ever explain exactly why they took the path they did, so in the absence of that, I'm making the best guesses I can

rnb_2 said:

I don't know if Apple will ever explain exactly why they took the path they did

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In that case, are you taking bets? I'm going with "they won't"

Pier said:

Having a portable Mac virtual environment with any number of monitors, zero latency, HDR, ultra high def, etc is really the most appealing use case for me.

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IMO it’s only a question of time before Apple (and other companies) offer a product which can serve – without any compromise – a products which users both can use as a massively professional computer and an equally pro tablet (with touchscreen, ability to connect to multiple 6k monitors, be used with or without a mouse etc).

The current M3 Mac would have been such a product already if it had a detachable touchscreen and an OS which was flexible enough to offer everything iOs and macOs already have.

Currently, it may be more profitable to keep these products separate, but the moment one company offers such a product, the others will follow.

I watched this review from The Verge which shed a lot of light on what the product is:


Even though in many ways this seems even less interesting than I imagined it would be, I'm still curious to see where they can take it, IF the technology catches up with a bigger vision for where it can go.
Hats off to Apple for trying anyway and it must have been a hell of a ride getting to where they are now.