Live data from Hacker News

Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

apple.com

131–140 of 1001 posts

Re: Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

#131

Are these M1 Pro/Max based on the A14 or A15? Does “M1” == “A14” or does it mean “M1” == “5nm TSMC node”?

The differences between the A14 and A15 are so small it doesn't matter. I suspect the CPU/GPU cores come from the A14 but the ProRes accelerator comes from the A15.

Re: Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

#132
post #118
post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the higher memory is also a huge win, with support for up to 64gb.

I thought the memory was one of the more interesting bits here. My 2-year-old Intel MBP has 64 GB, and 8 GB of additional memory on the GPU. True, on the M1 Max you don't have to copy back and forth between CPU and GPU thanks to integrated memory, but the new MBP still has less total memory than my 2-year-old Intel MBP. And it seems they just barely managed to get to 64 GiB. The whole processor chip is surrounded by…

Why 1TB? 640GB ought to be enough for anything...

Re: Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

#133
post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that Apple took a subtle, not so subtle stand: power consumption has to do with environmental impact.

Apple almost single-handedly made computing devices non-repairable or upgradable; across their own product line and the industry in general due to their outsized influence.

Weirdly these machines have a "6.1 repairability rating" when you go in their store. I wonder what ifixit will think of them.

Re: Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

#135
post #106
post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the higher memory is also a huge win, with support for up to 64gb.

And NVMe with 7.5gbps are like, we are almost not even note worthy haha Impressive all around.

It's not that noteworthy, given that affordable Samsung 980 Pro SSDs have been doing those speeds for well over a year now.

Re: Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

#136
post #118
post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the higher memory is also a huge win, with support for up to 64gb.

I thought the memory was one of the more interesting bits here. My 2-year-old Intel MBP has 64 GB, and 8 GB of additional memory on the GPU. True, on the M1 Max you don't have to copy back and forth between CPU and GPU thanks to integrated memory, but the new MBP still has less total memory than my 2-year-old Intel MBP. And it seems they just barely managed to get to 64 GiB. The whole processor chip is surrounded by…

I'm interested to see how the GPU on these performs, I pretty much disable the dGPU on my i9 MBP because it bogs my machine down. So for me it's essentially the same amount of memory.

Re: Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

#137
post #118
post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the higher memory is also a huge win, with support for up to 64gb.

I thought the memory was one of the more interesting bits here. My 2-year-old Intel MBP has 64 GB, and 8 GB of additional memory on the GPU. True, on the M1 Max you don't have to copy back and forth between CPU and GPU thanks to integrated memory, but the new MBP still has less total memory than my 2-year-old Intel MBP. And it seems they just barely managed to get to 64 GiB. The whole processor chip is surrounded by…

Memory is very stackable if needed, since the power per unit area is very low.

Re: Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

#138
No M1 Pro/Max Mini announced and my conspiracy theory on that is: they couldn’t justify a high price tag for it and instead are pushing pro users to the MacBook Pro and eventually Mac Pro and maybe iMac Pro. If they did an M1 Pro Mini would cannibalize these MacBook pros.

I’m glad I pulled the trigger two weeks ago and I just received my M1 mini last week, I am relieved and will be continuing to enjoy it

Re: Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

#140
All: let's keep this thread about the processors, and talk about the new MBPs in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28908383.

Edit: to read all the 600+ comments in this thread, click More at the bottom of the page, or like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28908031&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28908031&p=3

Post reply on HN