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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by isomorphic on Friday April 23, 2021 @01:00AM (#26911118)
I believe that Apple is effectively doing some binning with the M1: The intro MacBook Air has one less GPU core than the higher-config version or the MacBook Pro.

It would make sense if those were identically-made M1s where one GPU core didn't test well and thus had its fuses blown. Between the CPU and GPU, the GPU cores are almost certainly larger anyway; the GPU cores would therefore have higher probability of defects.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by londons_explore on Friday April 23, 2021 @04:31AM (#26912428)
It should be possible to identify this from infrared images of the cores in operation.

If you find different sets of cores in use, you can be pretty sure it was binned...

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