Perfect time for Apple to license the mac?

Re:Perfect time for Apple to license the mac? by daviddever23box on Sunday October 31, 2021 @09:01AM (#29056667)

Apple uses many of the same hardware and component manufacturers as do Dell, HP, Microsoft, etc., so I don't see any benefit to this–and they seem to be doing a decent job of satisfying their customers in terms of hardware.

You're right - it only makes sense to you, though I'm open to being convinced otherwise.

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Re:Perfect time for Apple to license the mac? by fedbook on Sunday October 31, 2021 @09:18AM (#29056767)

I’m a datacenter tech. The amount of dongles and outdated drivers required for simple serial connections or vga connections wastes tons of time. Licensing out the M1 would allow for a company to make a MacBook like laptop with every port! Perfect for technicians.

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Re:Perfect time for Apple to license the mac? by Tomte on Sunday October 31, 2021 @09:48AM (#29056946)

You can have all those ports on regular x86 laptops. We used to have that.

Nothing about port selection has anything to do with the M1 chip.

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