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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by pbmonster on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:28AM (#38081672)
> It might save on thickness, but I'm not buying the slim chasses argument being the only reason

Soldered memory allows higher bus frequency much, much easier. From a high frequency perspective, the slots are a nightmare.

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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by Jetrel on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:17PM (#38102493)
It's not soldered. It used to be, but ever since the M1, it's in-CPU. The ram is actually part of the CPU die.

Needless to say it has batshit insane implications for memory bandwidth.

I've got an M1, and the load time for apps is absolutely fucking insane by comparison to my iMac; there's at least one AAA game whose loading time dropped from about 5 minutes on my quad-core intel, to 5 seconds on my mac studio.

There's just a shitload of text-processing and compiling going on any time a large game gets launched. It's been incredibly good for compiling C++ and Node apps, as well.

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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by redeeman on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @06:30PM (#38106284)
the ram is not on die, and 5 min to 5 sec is obviously due to other things, if legit
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by thirdsun on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:33AM (#38111951)
Sounds like the iMac had spinning hard disks rather than SSD storage.
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