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About that A18 Pro MacBook rumor

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22 points tosh | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 16:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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steveBK123 ◴[04 Jul 25 16:55 UTC] No.44466084[source]▶
Interesting from a cost perspective but I hope it doesn’t introduce any oddities in software compatibility.

There’s already things the M chip series iPads can do that the A chip series can’t.

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dagmx ◴[04 Jul 25 17:02 UTC] No.44466138[source]▶
What differences in capabilities would there be? The cores are identical, it’s largely the topology that’s different.
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geoffpado ◴[04 Jul 25 17:08 UTC] No.44466177[source]▶
I/O seems to be the big one. The M1 has Thunderbolt support, the A18 Pro does not. This would majorly limit the resolution of external displays this MacBook could drive, for example. And the base-model M1 was already pretty limited in that capacity already.
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1. zaptrem ◴[04 Jul 25 18:10 UTC] No.44466684[source]▶
Don’t quote me on this but I think the A series also lacks support for virtualization.