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elijahg said:

liney said:

I'm dumbstruck that ALL of the M1 Macs have a maximum of 16 Gb of RAM - even the MacBook Pro! It appears that it is all in the Unified Memory of the M1 chip. How is this a good idea?

This is another thing that makes me think this is essentially a rehashed iPhone 12 CPU. iPhones use PoP (package on package) for the RAM, and more than 16GB physically won't fit. Therefore the CPU package would have to change to add extra pins for things like external memory and actual PCIe (not Thunderbolt), and that might have been too much work to get done for this event. 

Technically Thunderbolt and USB4 must have PCIe lanes assigned maybe Apple is going out of spec in this one or maybe Rosetta 2 emulated GPU drivers don’t work and need AMD to port it’s drivers to ARM so maybe Apple will give support eventually to eGPUs Or maybe they are stupid I really really hope at least in this regard is not the last one aaand I also really hope that in te future (even though now they’ve said no) they work with Microsoft to revive BootCamp with Windows 10 ARM and my last hope is that Microsoft now levels up its x86 emulation layer or as they call it “magical emulation” to at least match Rosetta 2, they need almost 2 years to give support for x86 64 bits apps and have serious issues with graphic APIs still, while Apple in his first attempt was able to run at playable framerates non other than Shadow Of the Tomb Raider x86 in an iPad SoC