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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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1080 points antipaul | 4 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source
1. saagarjha ◴[12 Nov 20 01:30 UTC] No.25065330[source]▶
It's interesting that the Mac Mini is clocked slightly lower than the laptops.
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2. vondur ◴[12 Nov 20 01:35 UTC] No.25065386[source]▶
Yeah, that's odd. I figured it would be clocked higher as it can probably have the best cooling of all of the M1 devices.
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3. thesandlord ◴[12 Nov 20 01:37 UTC] No.25065401[source]▶
It might be a lower-binned part that can't run as fast. Assuming the best chips will go to the Pro.
4. thoughtsimple ◴[12 Nov 20 02:41 UTC] No.25065821[source]▶
There seems to be only one public test of the Macmini9,1. Sometimes GeekBench is not accurate on the clock speeds. Take the clock speed with a little skepticism until more results are posted. I can't see why the system with the best cooling would be 3.04 GHz instead of 3.2 like both the MacBook Pro and Air.