You can already get 7940HS mini PCs

There is very little demand for a powerful iGPU desktop chip

There was little demand. Things change.

In the sense that we take having 6 or 8 cores for granted

Shout out the the Duron line. Suddenly we could get decent a FPU without paying the Intel tax, and that mattered to me back then because I sure did not have a lot of spare cash.

My Duron 900 was a heck of an upgrade from the old K6-400. It lasted me until the Athlon 2500+ provided a similar incredible performance hike at a very forgiving price.

Pretty much what one would expect from a ~22% increase in GPU clock speed, I guess.

That will be a really nice upgrade for him - it’ll be 50-75% faster for anything CPU bound.

Apple set expectations with their marketing, and reinforce them with their pricing. Why does someone always try and defend the richest corporation on the planet when they get caught undercutting those expectations?