logoalt Hacker News

osmukkatoday at 2:58 PM5 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.


Replies

addaontoday 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.

show 1 reply
theanonymousonetoday at 2:59 PM

up to 46 times, you mean?

show 1 reply
setgreetoday 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.

show 2 replies
totetsutoday at 3:14 PM

Whats an up to dog?

gib444today at 3:46 PM

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