Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by npunt on Saturday November 28, 2020 @03:04PM (#25240076)

GP means LPDDR3 support which capped out at 16gb on intel, which was because their 10nm lines with LPDDR4 were delayed years. It was always possible to use regular DDR but for laptops the low power variant is important.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by FireBeyond on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:21PM (#25241042)

... and yet they use DDR4 (not LP) on at least one of their laptop lines.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by npunt on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:39PM (#25242758)

Yes they do on the 16”, after years of complaints from users who didn’t understand the constraint, and which they added the maximum allowable battery size to (~100wH), and it still only lasts 3-4h in moderate use.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by AzN1337c0d3r on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:52AM (#25243423)

They switched it on the 2018 15-inch and it didn't change the battery life at all.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by saagarjha on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:56PM (#25241983)

Seemingly out of necessity?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by krzyk on Sunday November 29, 2020 @07:56AM (#25244879)

GP didn't write about LPDDR3, just a vague statement that intel cpus didn't support > 16GB RAM, which I proved was wrong.

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