M1 gets new features .. Intel left behind

it seems more to be recognizing handwritten sentences on a picture, for which a neural engine is likely to help a lot.

Of course it can be done. But it seems Apple took the decision for several reasons:

  1. Neural engine makes it easier to develop the feature
  2. Neural engine uses less power than using the CPU for this, less power means improved battery time
  3. It’s an incentive to get an Apple Silicon machine

The ability to identify text ‘in a photo’ has nothing to do with speech synthesis though or am I missing something.

1. Neural engine makes it easier to develop the feature
2. Neural engine uses less power than using the CPU for this, less power means improved battery time
3. It’s an incentive to get an Apple Silicon machine users buy new Apple hardware besides software updates only possible on new models.

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Well, there is always an Intel based System 76 running Linux. Since we are very heavy virtual machine users, that’s what my IT guy want’s to start using.