| Soundwave said: Blame COVID, because it's pretty obvious the OLED was being prepped as a Pro/4K model otherwise. They opted to nix it and slap an OLED screen on instead but got stuck with a 4K dock + 4K altered chipset that they had already R&Ded and designed. So they basically just kept the dock and newer chip, even though there was no point to it. |
I think you are wrong about the real power of Mariko and about 4K.
Devices that generate heat have a regulator that reduces the power. The first steam engines had a regulator. And today's machines that generate heat also have a regulator. The regulator makes the system always work below its capacity: normally 20% or 30%.
Switch generates heat. Therefore, it surely has a regulator that forces the equipment to operate below its power. As simple as that.
Of course, you can disable the regulator. But what you now have is a switch without a regulator, not a more powerful switch. As simple as that.
If the available production lines produce 4K chipsets, it is faster and cheaper to put that chipset in the OLED than to set up a new production line.
