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Re:Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price by kjkjadksj on Friday July 11, 2025 @12:29PM (#44534111)
Can’t emulate or spoof m series chip?
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Re:Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price by dylan604 on Friday July 11, 2025 @12:38PM (#44534221)
with what? the m series is everything on the chip. you're suggesting an Intel CPU an Nvidia GPU and a bunch of RAM sticks to be emulated to present itself to the OS as a single device?
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Re:Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price by kjkjadksj on Saturday July 12, 2025 @01:24PM (#44543493)
Not sure. I assumed there could be some way to lie to the os like how you can spoof other metadata about the device to other software.
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Re:Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price by duskwuff on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:20PM (#44537347)
Not at any usable level of performance. It's a completely different hardware architecture.
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