The ‘collective intelligence’ around the MacBook Neo chip is going insane. Now, the processors ‘were heading for a landfill’ if apple didn’t use them in the MacBook. Uhhh, no, they use chips in iPads, Apple TVs… Also the way people talk about binning reminds me of how people say a lobster is ‘less evolved’ than some other species. Binning is the process of making one chip and then testing and using the chips according to their capabilities. Intel would make 1 chip and then sell it at various different megahertzs. They would put some into the fastest bin, some in the next bin down, etc. They’re all “binned”. Or sony’s cell processor. Designed with 9 cores, but they had yield issues. So they said fuck it, it’s 8 core now. If they got a rare 9 working core chip, I think they just disabled one so they could all go in the same single bin. Are those chips ‘binned’? There’s one pool of chips, but they aren’t using all their designed cores. And Sony certainly wasn’t going to just give up and not make a PS3 and toss everything in the landfill. Gawrsh. No, they made the hard choice they had to and moved on. People are writing about apple re-using chips like they invented. Get a grip.