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Originally Posted by OtinG
Before the M1 mini you would have seen one model and various RAM options for it. Oh well, user RAM upgrades for M1 Macs won’t be an option. That much we now know.
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The ram is built into the M1 chip. It's kind of like "most of the computer in one chip". That's were a good deal of the performance improvement is coming from. So many of the components (CPU, GPU, MEMORY) no longer communicate across a bus to other discrete chips. And it's a unified memory architecture -- so that the cpu and gpu don't have separate RAM. RAM can be used as needed by whichever type of process needs it.
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Originally Posted by OtinG
I’m very skeptical of Apple’s benchmarks. It reminds me of the Cheech and Chong routine about the dog poop!  I look forward to seeing some real user benchmarks and experience with the new Macs on video and photo processing. I hope the 8GB mini can really way outperform my 2014 MacBook Pro 15” Retina with i7 processor and 16GB of RAM. If so, then the mini would be a no brainer at just $700! We will see... |
The Anantech folks did a nice write up....they are optimistic based on what they've seen in the A14 iphone/ipad chip.