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• Charging the customer a $200 upgrade fee for a component that costs them around $2 internally is great for Apple and their shareholders, but extremely bad for everyone else, including the greater tech economy as a whole. There used to be a ton of h…

  in Why Apple uses integrated memory in Apple Silicon -- and why it's both good and bad Comment by srgnick February 2024
• No discreet GPU will ever be supported on the M-series chips, thunderbolt or PCI-express Apple fundamentally changed the architecture of the gfx frameworks, there is no longer a way to even reference a GPU with it's own dedicated memory anymore In …

  in Apple Silicon M1 Mac detection of Thunderbolt 3 eGPU gives hope for future support Comment by srgnick March 2022
• The problem with this "more powerful" claim is, as with anything relating to computing, it depends on the workload.Another thing to consider is that giant leaps in graphics tech happen every few years. With a Mac Pro (or equivalent PC workstation), …

  in Fully loaded Mac Studio costs just $7999, more powerful than similarly priced Mac Pro Comment by srgnick March 2022