<story><title>Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/10/apple-unveils-m1-its-first-system-on-a-chip-for-portable-mac-computers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>293984j29384</author><text>8GB and 16GB configurations seem more than enough..</text></item><item><author>ameen</author><text>I guess the cooling let’s them tweak the CPU clocks accordingly? Wonder if we can hack the Mac mini with water blocks and squeeze higher clocks. The memory limitation makes it a dud though.</text></item><item><author>kevindong</author><text>Completely unconfirmed speculation incoming:&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a solid chance that the logic board is exactly the same on all of the Macs announced today and the only difference is the cooling solution. If you play around with the Apple Store configurator, the specs are all suspiciously similar between every new Mac.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;macbook-air&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;macbook-air&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;macbook-pro&amp;#x2F;13-inch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;macbook-pro&amp;#x2F;13-inch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;mac-mini&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;mac-mini&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_ph_</author><text>I had a quad-core Mini with 16GB in 2011. Almost 10 years later we should be much further, especially as the Intel Mini allows up to 64GB. (Which you probably would use only if you upgraded the memory yourself).</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/10/apple-unveils-m1-its-first-system-on-a-chip-for-portable-mac-computers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>293984j29384</author><text>8GB and 16GB configurations seem more than enough..</text></item><item><author>ameen</author><text>I guess the cooling let’s them tweak the CPU clocks accordingly? Wonder if we can hack the Mac mini with water blocks and squeeze higher clocks. The memory limitation makes it a dud though.</text></item><item><author>kevindong</author><text>Completely unconfirmed speculation incoming:&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a solid chance that the logic board is exactly the same on all of the Macs announced today and the only difference is the cooling solution. If you play around with the Apple Store configurator, the specs are all suspiciously similar between every new Mac.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;macbook-air&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;macbook-air&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;macbook-pro&amp;#x2F;13-inch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;macbook-pro&amp;#x2F;13-inch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;mac-mini&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;shop&amp;#x2F;buy-mac&amp;#x2F;mac-mini&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonplackett</author><text>They&amp;#x27;ve also halved the 2 base SSDs to 256&amp;#x2F;512&lt;p&gt;I thought with the last update they&amp;#x27;d finally seen the light and moved to 512&amp;#x2F;1tb, now we&amp;#x27;re back with the silly 256gb.&lt;p&gt;If you factor in having to upgrade ram to 16gb and ssd to 512 it&amp;#x27;s only £100 shy of the old price. Good, but not as good as it looked to begin with.</text></comment>