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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 | 1 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.233s | source
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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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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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1. redisman ◴[12 Nov 20 04:12 UTC] No.25066360[source]▶
That must be it. They’re building a few bigger SoC’s