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| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: John B on April 13, 2021, 12:17:28 am ---For the price that macs go for, cmon just toss in an extra 8GB over standard. --- End quote --- Why would they do that when they know people will pay 4x the going rate for the upgrade? Never make the mistake of thinking Apple have morals. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on April 12, 2021, 01:14:35 pm --- --- Quote from: tooki on April 10, 2021, 12:51:48 pm --- --- Quote from: rsjsouza on April 10, 2021, 01:54:28 am ---I didn't see they were using PoP (Package on Package)... Nasty little things from the cellphone world - the first I saw was the then new OMAP3530, part of the original BeagleBoard. But yes, the title of the article is terribly misleading. I don't think Apple will worry too much, as the operation is terribly error prone and, unless someone starts offering upgrade services at relatively low cost, it will be noise. --- End quote --- The M1 being the initial iteration, one very clearly derived directly from the iPad Pro’s SoC, it’s not surprising that it’s also a PoP. I mean, in essence, the M1 Macs basically are the iPad Pro hardware architecture moved to two different form factors. --- End quote --- I see. That brings an interesting wrinkle where an iPad Pro could then potentially run macOS. Sure, such operation would be just a patch away, but it certainly makes you wonder. --- Quote from: tooki on April 10, 2021, 12:51:48 pm ---But I’d be surprised if later Mac Apple Silicon doesn’t include versions with support for socketed RAM and SSD, and probably GPUs. Since they intend to roll our Apple Silicon across the Mac product line, including high-end pro workstations, they’re going to need to scale up all the hardware, and I doubt you’d even want it all tightly integrated for thermal reasons. Plus they’re going to need to break out PCIe buses and stuff for expansion, since the pro customers need things like uncompressed video capture cards. --- End quote --- Freudian slip? :-DD --- End quote --- Nope, just an ordinary autocorrect typo. :p To “roll [it] across the product line” isn’t grammatically sensical anyway. It’s been a very, very long time since I’ve worked on Apple stuff professionally! (I do continue to use it, of course, including for work stuff. But I have no desire to go back to either selling or supporting computers.) |
| Black Phoenix:
--- Quote from: Microdoser on April 12, 2021, 08:15:41 pm --- --- Quote from: tszaboo on April 12, 2021, 06:11:32 pm --- --- Quote from: tooki on April 12, 2021, 11:55:47 am --- --- Quote from: tszaboo on April 12, 2021, 08:24:28 am ---Maybe they could do this new thing, where they dont place the memory on the SOC. They place it on this extra PCB, and then it is possible to replace the memory. Maybe they could do this to, IDK, the SSD, the memory and the wireless. Or how about a replaceable battery pack. Or a replaceable CPU. You know instead of soldering it to the MB directly, you have some sort of mechanical way of attaching it to the MB. So this way the laptop doesn't turn into e-waste when a 12 year old kid codes the next website in java and uses too much RAM. Do you think this would be feasible? --- End quote --- That’s crazy talk! --- End quote --- I know! But the real crazy talk is this: --- Quote from: Microdoser on April 12, 2021, 01:30:18 pm ---Just recently I was outside my house --- End quote --- --- End quote --- I know, once I was back inside I had to have a little sit in my favourite chair to calm down. --- End quote --- Why I'm always not able to find that kind of luck outside when I go out... |
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