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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by valuearb on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @08:10PM (#26963802)
What do you mean the M1 doesn't have good IO?

A 1 Tb Mini with all the SSD write lines benchmarked at

Write: 2,983 MB/Sec Read: 2,710 MB/Sec

That's as fast or faster than Intel Macs, and way higher than most PC SSDs.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by kalleboo on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @01:50AM (#26966095)
Chip I/O as in having lots of memory channels and lots of PCIe lanes.

That said, Intel mobile CPUs don't have fantastic I/O either, this will matter more when Apple has to scale up to iMac Pro/Mac Pro territory.

"SSD performance" is a very high-level view of I/O, and depends more on the size and configuration of flash chips used than the CPU design.

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