Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs

Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by maven29 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @08:44AM (#34895303)

They got there by skimping on IO

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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by manmal on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @09:06AM (#34895657)

Please elaborate. IO is really not an issue in the M* machines I‘ve used - on the contrary.

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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by adgjlsfhk1 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @11:40AM (#34898256)

none of the M1 laptops let you use multiple external monitors and all of the M1 products have much lower limits on storage than PCs.

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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by dev_tty01 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @01:45PM (#34900594)

Not true. Depending upon the processor choice, M1, M1 pro, or M1 max, you get 1, 2, or 4 external monitors. Up to 64 GB ram. Do you really need more than 64 GB? The number of users who actually need more are a very small part of the market.

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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by jb1991 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:42PM (#34902368)

And the M1 Ultra even offers up to 128 GB RAM -- and that is also unified with GPU RAM.

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Re:Apple Orders Entire Supply of TSMC's 3nm Chips for iPhone... by ihateolives on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @10:58PM (#34906581)

The price of RAM is absolutely bonkers though. If i ever need more than 16GB of RAM and more than 512GB of storage, I'll strongly consider moving back to Thinkpads or something.

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