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osmukkayesterday at 2:58 PM7 repliesview on HN

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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addaonyesterday at 3:15 PM

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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theanonymousoneyesterday at 2:59 PM

up to 46 times, you mean?

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geophileyesterday at 7:18 PM

A silly hobby of mine has been to track Apple's use of the word "computer". They don't use it. The only use of the word that I can find, on apple.com, is in legal boilerplate.

I want a computer dammit, not an appliance.

smugmatoday at 1:25 AM

It appears up to 46 times.

gib444yesterday at 3:46 PM

That's probably up to 300% of an increase from 'previous' press releases

totetsuyesterday at 3:14 PM

Whats an up to dog?

setgreeyesterday at 3:49 PM

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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