No mention of processor speeds, just like iOS devices. This is the new normal now for Macs.
If you use it, and it is faster, do you care what the numbers are?
Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
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#112So, all of these new Macs have the same SOC across the board? Or will there be slight differences like the Macbook pro will have a higher-binned soc or maybe the Mac mini and Macbook air will have fewer graphics core?
The cheaper MacBook Air has a 7-core GPU instead of an 8-core one.
Re: Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
#113So, all of these new Macs have the same SOC across the board? Or will there be slight differences like the Macbook pro will have a higher-binned soc or maybe the Mac mini and Macbook air will have fewer graphics core?
Pro has fans unlike air, so it’ll probably run faster
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#114Will existing programs run on this?
Yes, they have an Intel emulator (Rosetta I think they called it) and are pushing developers to produce "universal apps".
Rosetta 2 is the newest version. The universal apps are just an export in XCode from what the presentation made it seem like. Developers exclaiming it took 10 minutes to do the universal app build.
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#115Max 16GB of RAM on these new machines is really not that great to be honest. The mini supported up to 64GB before.
SSD performance with their integrated IO controller might close the gap here, the same way that pretty fast storage on their iPhones makes the lack of RAM there not so debilitating.
But yeah, agreed that not having a 32GB option is somewhat disappointing.
(sent from my MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM)
Re: Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
#116So, all of these new Macs have the same SOC across the board? Or will there be slight differences like the Macbook pro will have a higher-binned soc or maybe the Mac mini and Macbook air will have fewer graphics core?
The Mac Mini and MacBook Pro have fans where the MacBook Air is fanless, so I assume there are some differences in at least boost clock and probably core clock too. I wouldn't be surprised if we see higher core count M1X chips next for the larger MacBook Pros and iMacs, and maybe even the Mac Pro.
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#117Max 16GB of RAM on these new machines is really not that great to be honest. The mini supported up to 64GB before.
And it costs an extra €224 to go from 8 to 16gb. This is ridiculously expensive.
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#118If you didn't see the event, they've put the new chip into the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini that will start shipping soon.
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#119Max 16GB of RAM on these new machines is really not that great to be honest. The mini supported up to 64GB before.
Holy cow, that's true. New 2020 Mini with a 16GB RAM, seriously?
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#120I wonder of they're going to try and pull the same 'no specs' thing that they do with the iPhone/iPad. I think I want to know how much RAM is in my MacBook Pro where I don't really care how much is in my iPhone. edit: Store is LIVE, and has lots of specs!
They didn't; the pricing page shows exactly how much RAM you're paying for.