M1 Mac Mini Teardown

Re:M1 Mac Mini Teardown by goatinaboat on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:04PM (#25139248)

If they put 64Gb directly next to a high end CPU and that made it 10% faster all around i suspect it would be a pretty popular choice despite the lack of upgradability.

What about ECC?

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Re:M1 Mac Mini Teardown by wmf on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:42PM (#25142187)

As usual, the uncrippled "workstation" version will have ECC and the crippled "consumer" version won't.

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Re:M1 Mac Mini Teardown by goatinaboat on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @04:55PM (#25142951)

I mean, ECC is going to mean lower yields from the fab and a higher TDP. Will it be worth it?

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Re:M1 Mac Mini Teardown by wmf on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @05:13PM (#25143170)

I don't see why that would be the case.

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Re:M1 Mac Mini Teardown by goatinaboat on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @06:10PM (#25143892)

Because it’s half the density of non-ECC so bigger wafers, and runs at a higher voltage?

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Re:M1 Mac Mini Teardown by fomine3 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @11:50PM (#25146338)

DDR4 ECC needs just 1 parity chip for 8 chip, not half. Of course it consumes a bit more power to calculate checksum. IMO it worth for every computing.

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