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Have you seen modern CAD software? That's pretty compute intensive. That's just one of many tools in the engineering space that is compute intensive. Remember, there are a lot of engineers!

Movie making and editing is still pretty compute intensive, as is animation. Thanks to YouTube, a lot of people have video editing work streams and they're looking for ways to get their work done faster and make their content stand out so that viewers will click those 'Like' and 'Subscribe' buttons so that they make more money.

Music making is getting more and more compute intensive, especially nowadays as all the what once were physical processors in the signal chain are all being virtualized. Add in amp simulators, cab simulators, AI drummers, and of course nobody wants any latency, and you need some modern processing muscle to make it all work.

Apple makes the Mac Studio for a reason - and it's not for gamers!

As far as developers are concerned, no, you don't need much horsepower to "compile a lot of code", but you may need a lot of horsepower to run that code if it's in one of the aforementioned software categories.



I understand this point, and I agree. What I am saying is that number of creators is tiny when compared to the number of consumers. IMHO the demand for creator tools is too high considering all you need to consume is a browser or tablet, or game console




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