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Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

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420 points speckx | 4 comments | 11 Jul 25 14:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. bee_rider ◴[11 Jul 25 16:57 UTC] No.44534462[source]▶
Tangential, just based on a funny coincidence noticeable in the article: What do all these M’s stand for, anyway? I guess the M.2 might be inherited from the m in mSATA and mPCIe(?).

For Apple… they had A for for their cellphone chips, which vaguely made sense because they were the only chips Apple made at the time. But then, M for their laptop chips? M as in… mobile, or mini? But they use it in their Macs Pro, including their workstation-y ones…

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2. mdasen ◴[11 Jul 25 16:59 UTC] No.44534489[source]▶
M as in Mac
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3. bee_rider ◴[11 Jul 25 17:08 UTC] No.44534621[source]▶
Oh. I’m an M as in dummy, haha.
4. russelg ◴[12 Jul 25 12:42 UTC] No.44541659[source]▶
This isn't particularly true anymore since some iPad models are also shipping with M processors.