Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

Post by heipei » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 7:55 PM UTC

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If you don’t run Electron apps, even an older Mac will fly. My 2015 is still astoundingly fast, it just doesn’t have Chrome bogging it down.

This idea that Electron apps are inherently somehow slow is starting to bug me out. While writing Electron version of our graphics heavy web application, I noticed that the memory usage or CPU consumption is not a lot higher than some other native applications. We have taken careful care in order to write fast and memory friendly javascript if possible, avoiding using slow features of the language (the list is long,…

Post by Bud » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 7:57 PM UTC

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Apple isn't harnessing magic here. The opportunity for competition exists, but everyone else is just sitting on their asses while Apple's chip team puts in the work. If you want to beat Mx, you have to think outside the box, just like how Apple thought outside of x86. That being said, I do enjoy the shift to ARM as the dominant arch. x86 has far too many decades of cruft behind it. I don't think Apple will take over…

> The opportunity for competition exists Perhaps, but I guess it would take on the order of a decade for a competitor to build their technology including an ecosystem with customers. And who says they won't copy Apple's business practices? > but everyone else is just sitting on their asses while Apple's chip team puts in the work. That's because the complexity of the semiconductor industry is daunting. You need far m…

Post by EricE » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 7:57 PM UTC

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This would be quite an accelerated timeline if Apple ships its second-generation M-series chip only eight months after the first. Typically, they’ve followed a sort of six-month tick-tock pattern for the A-series, launching a new major revision in the fall with the new iPhone, and launching an “X” revision in the spring with new iPads. I think most observers have been expecting an “M1X” for Apple's first pro-oriented…

Some people (a lot?) are now waiting for the new Pro devices and won't buy new until then

Post by skinnymuch » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 8:04 PM UTC

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> The opportunity for competition exists Perhaps, but I guess it would take on the order of a decade for a competitor to build their technology including an ecosystem with customers. And who says they won't copy Apple's business practices? > but everyone else is just sitting on their asses while Apple's chip team puts in the work. That's because the complexity of the semiconductor industry is daunting. You need far m…

You mean the business practices wherein Apple is 10x better on privacy than everyone else to the point that Facebook and Google are now being forced to be honest with users, disclose all the user data they are stealing and selling, and disclose all the privacy and security risks inherent in their business models? Sign me up for more of those kinds of "business practices", thank you very much.

Post by thehnguy » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 8:07 PM UTC

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> I think most observers have been expecting an “M1X” An M2 name implies some architectural differences like extra cores or more external bandwidth. I'd be totally happy with an M1x with some tweaks like more external connectivity and more memory. Which, for me, would be quite perfect. The only reason I'm holding back this purchase is the 16 GB memory limit.

Same here. I want a replacement for my 27in iMac and would have held my nose at the slightly smaller screen, but really want more memory than 16GiB (docker, etc...). So Apple will just have to wait to get my money until fall (or whenever they announce the successor to the 27in iMac).