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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by dwaite on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:37AM (#25067436)
I don't quite get how Apple could claim to be Thunderbolt-compatible with this sort of limitation in hardware, though.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by djxfade on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:59AM (#25067877)
It's not a limitation in hardware. It's a legacy feature of the x86 that isn't supported on ARM.

This could be solved by the GPU engineers by removing the legacy compatibility. "Nobody" boots a modern PC from BIOS anymore

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