• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Will the M4 be used in new MacBook Airs, or is that a completely separate SoC? I’m not familiar with Apple’s hardware anymore.

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          6 months ago

          I still can’t run basic ml stuff. I can’t play the vast majority of video games. I have to put up with the same sentiment that Microsoft brings to their products, that you are just renting your computer from Apple. The hardware looks bad ass. Too bad its apple.

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        6 months ago

        Going from 1 TB to 2 TB SSD on this iPad is somehow $400? That is a clown price but it is a 50% discount on going from 512 GB to 1 TB. What the actual fuck?

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            6 months ago

            8GB should like be illegal, lol. Wonder if you can upgrade it (or is it soldered) or if it’s just for the landfill.

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              6 months ago

              All of Apple’s M series chips have the ram right on the same package as the rest of the SoC. Not upgradeable, but also much faster than traditional off-package memory.

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                6 months ago

                Funnily Apple marketed their slower ram as something better in the nineties when memory speed was king. Now when nobody cares about memory speed (I bet most people confound bandwith with speed, forgetting latence too) but we all like to have lots of it because we use lots of programs & apps, Apple is doing the reverse.

                Lol.

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                  6 months ago

                  In this case I was referring to bandwidth and latency, which on-package memory helps with. It does make a difference in memory-intensive applications, but the majority of people would never notice a difference. Also Apple will absolutely give you a ton of memory, you just have to pay for it. They offer 128GB on the MacBook Pro, and it’s unified so the GPU has full access to it, which makes it surprisingly good for running LLMs locally, for example.

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                    6 months ago

                    Yeah, that’s the ticket though, upgrading from 8GB to 16GB won’t cost you the price of 8GB but way more.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah it’ll come to the Air’s and the Mac Mini at some point. I suspect it’s actually cheaper to make on the new process node (it’s the second generation of TSMC’s 3nm process), so maybe it won’t be too far off.

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        6 months ago

        Any idea how long it usually takes for a new SoC to reach the Airs? Assuming they follow a pattern with each now generation.

        Just wondering whether to buy an M3 Air or wait for the M4 version.