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mr lizard said:

nosleepapnea said:

Please clarify if this will run with 8GB ram on the M1 or does it need 16GB to be practical?  Especially since one of your reviews implied 8GB of ram on M1 was similar to 16GB ram on Intel Mac.

You should post this on the Parallels support forum. 

I don't think Microsoft has posted minimum specs for Windows on ARM publicly but generally they recommend 2 GB or greater for the 64-bit x86 architecture. Their previous Windows 10 Mobile for ARM was even lower at 1 GB. I'd imagine that giving Parallels 4 GB for a Windows VM should be sufficient to run reasonably well. I don't think you would want to run too much other Mac software at the same time though.

NYC362 said:

<<Anderson told The New York Times that, although North Dakota is a conservative state, it's also "where Teddy Roosevelt came from, and there's no bigger trustbuster." She did concede that the bill may not have the votes to pass.>>

Someone should inform Mr Anderson that Teddy Roosevelt was born and raised in New York. 

Good catch. Born and raised and Governor of NY too. Went to Harvard. He did own a ranch in N. Dakota though.

DuhSesame said:

jdb8167 said:

There is very little chance that the next update to Apple Silicon will be limited to 16 GB of RAM. The current 16" MacBook Pro and the top of line x86 Mac mini can go up to 64 GB. Apple is unlikely to release new ASi models that have less RAM. If this release is also meant for a 27" iMac replacement, then they will have to go up to 128 GB.

I do think the next SoC will be 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. I also wouldn't be surprised if Apple boosts the clock a little. Maybe a 3.4-3.5 GHz clock. The 8 core GPU on the M1 right now is about the same performance as the current 11th Generation Xe from Intel. So doubling up the GPU cores would double the best that Intel currently has for integrated graphics. Doubling again would put the ASi SoC at around the top of the line best mobile GPU from AMD.

These still won't be processors for the Mac Pro or iMac Pro. Those are probably coming next year.

I wonder where did they got their results from?  They couldn't gain access for the sample.  Maybe somewhere there's a leak of the ES?

They are just guessing probably. Just like what I posted is a guess.

There is very little chance that the next update to Apple Silicon will be limited to 16 GB of RAM. The current 16" MacBook Pro and the top of line x86 Mac mini can go up to 64 GB. Apple is unlikely to release new ASi models that have less RAM. If this release is also meant for a 27" iMac replacement, then they will have to go up to 128 GB.

I do think the next SoC will be 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. I also wouldn't be surprised if Apple boosts the clock a little. Maybe a 3.4-3.5 GHz clock. The 8 core GPU on the M1 right now is about the same performance as the current 11th Generation Xe from Intel. So doubling up the GPU cores would likely double the best that Intel currently has for integrated graphics. Doubling again would put the ASi SoC at around the top of the line best mobile GPU from AMD.

These still won't be processors for the Mac Pro or iMac Pro. Those are probably coming next year.

larryjw said:

Why can't ARM just exist as a stand-alone company? I don't get the "ownership" issue. In a significant way, it's just a standards organization, like the RFCs defined the protocols for the Internet, or the standards for relational databases, or Java, or CSS. 

A small matter of $40 billion (note that's with a B ) that Softbank paid for the company.