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Re:Apple Now Selling More M1 Macs Than Intel-Based Models, S... by jasonwatkinspdx on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:45AM (#26891176)
Apple is now able to codesign the software and hardware top to bottom. I have no inside knowledge but using one of these things it's basically obvious what's going on. They only have to write drivers for their own hardware, and for their own GUI library. So I think they've been really aggressive about making the interactions low friction.

It's not just that the hardware is fast. It's that the sort of hitches, pauses, etc that we're used to are just gone. They've made the way the software and hardware interact a nearly perfectly smooth racetrack. They've done this to such a degree that it must have been a very overt high level goal.

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Re:Apple Now Selling More M1 Macs Than Intel-Based Models, S... by voisin on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @12:50PM (#26892118)
> They only have to write drivers for their own hardware, and for their own GUI library.

They’ve always had limited processor and GPU options though (relative to MS where Windows had to support an insane amount of options), so wouldn’t they have optimized for what they knew would be in the case?

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Re:Apple Now Selling More M1 Macs Than Intel-Based Models, S... by jasonwatkinspdx on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:41PM (#26892945)
They'd still be constrained by Intel/nVidia's expected API design and almost certainly some key code from them as well. With apple controlling the hardware too, they can make the interface work however they want. That introduces the possibility of making some radical simplifications or optimizations.
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