Where can I buy a large analogue meter?

It isn't make do, it is vastly better. That's why there isn't a market for the old stuff anymore.

Some of the time it is, most obviously with solid state disks, led lights, ECMs in cars, inductive charging etc etc etc.

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it takes a radical breakthru like with flying, nuclear power etc etc etc.

And modern cars require far less tuning and are much more reliable than one that is 50 years old.

In 1979, my wife and I bought a new Ford Mustang. On the way home from the dealer, the engine stalled at every stoplight.

Fast forward to 2017 when I bought a new Ford Escape. Yup, you guessed it. On the way home from the dealer, the engine stalled at every stoplight.

Apparently the engineers couldn't keep the engine running at low RPM so the marketing department named the "feature" Auto Start/Stop technology.

( Seriously though, the Escape has been awesome. We plan to buy an Explorer soon. )

Dunno, I have watch recent denials by Ford about their engines failing and wouldn't touch a Ford myself. I prefer Hyundais.

It's not Apple vs Intel it's TSMC vs Intel.

Apple's processor is an ARM so it's going to be more efficient than intels X86

True, but possibly not the way you meant it. AMD is partnered with TSMC and the Zen 3+ design on TSMC 6nm capabilities is currently kicking Intel ass.

When comparing RISC to CISC you have to be careful to specify what area you're comparing for efficiency. Power consumption has been where RISC has shone. It took a while for compilers to catch up to create optimized code. Code size is necessarily greater, hence more RAM.

RISC designed like Atmel's AVR products are a lot more fun to program in assembler even if it does take more lines.

Yes, the tecknology has definitely changed. The motor now has no brushes, and the contrioller has more smarts than an early PC - and the battery has about 8 or 10 times the power density by weight. (Also almost 1000 times the price, too) It needs to go another 10 times to be close to a gosoline internal combustion engine for power density.

and when the chemists perfect making alcohol directly from cellulose the internal combustiion engine becomes an option again - with much higher efficiency than today's gasoline engines. (still emitting CO2 - but using raw vegetation that absorbs the carbon - so close to carbon neutral. Also excellent for Fuel Cell Electric. A lot more believable than getting battery technology to that levelin 5 or 10 years.

The Miata was only 3 years ago

I stopped by my dealer today. He didn't have any cellulose powered ones in stock. He's going to call me when it is available.

Let's see what is available in five years. Meantime, lots of scientists working on those batteries.

Perhaps but do we need that much power density? Do we care? What most buyer look for is range and performance and that is very comparable.

On a sunny day (Sat, 16 Apr 22 20:31:39 UTC) it happened Jimmy Farley snipped-for-privacy@fake.id wrote in snipped-for-privacy@news.usenet.farm>:

Lemme see, around 1973 I had a Ford Mustang V8 Cobra Special Never stalled at stoplights,.. Out of there fast :-)

Maybe saves fuel? With today's prices not a bad idea?

In terms of power consumption, yes, but is that the be all and end all of 'efficiency'?

I've not found any ARM will beat a late model Intel yet, but there is no reason why ultimately it shouldn't. After all most CISC processors are RISC processors with microcode.

But the point here is that Apple didn't 'design' the chip any more than it designed the 6502, 6800, power PC or Intel chips.

Indeed, my phone and (not that I have one) Raspberry Pis, and also GPUs are very power efficient but they lack the number of programs they can run.

I have Zen2 (an AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT) and that's also TSMC, but 7nm.

The equivalent CPU on Zen3 (Ryzen 9 5900X) is also 7nm.

Yes, very fast.

So the high speed is just magic then?

On a sunny day (Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:56:39 +0100) it happened "Commander Kinsey" snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@ryzen.lan:

Not so sure, maybe a few MS windows program but the open source Unix / Linux world has likely an often better version, free at that, and a lot more choice.

Most people have trouble using Windows, nevermind Linux.

Anyway, I run a lot of science research programs (see Boinc) and I think out of about 40 projects, only 5 run on ARM. They just don't see the point in recoding everything.