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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 | 6 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.822s | source | bottom
1. ip26 ◴[12 Nov 20 02:43 UTC] No.25065829[source]▶
If the M1 mops the floor with everything else, why didn't they put it in the high-end 16-inch MBP too?
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2. grecy ◴[12 Nov 20 02:45 UTC] No.25065840[source]▶
I think we have to assume something else is coming. Certainly something that supports >16GB of RAM, and something that has more I/O.

While we're there we may as well a bunch more cores...

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3. bredren ◴[12 Nov 20 02:50 UTC] No.25065864[source]▶
It also needs a proper application for marketing.

Something “previously not possible on a portable” specific to Apple’s other strengths.

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4. redisman ◴[12 Nov 20 04:12 UTC] No.25066360[source]▶
That must be it. They’re building a few bigger SoC’s
5. grecy ◴[12 Nov 20 05:14 UTC] No.25066704{3}[source]▶
Portable? I guess they will put something 'bigger' than M1 in the new 16" MBP, but what I'm really interested in is what they put into the new iMac Pro and eventually Mac Pro.
6. mholm ◴[12 Nov 20 15:16 UTC] No.25070734[source]▶
It does by performance, but RAM and IO are still very constrained (1 external display on laptops, max 16GB RAM) We'll see. If they replaced all products with an M1 version, they're diluting their pro brand, then un-diluting it when they figure out the pro features?