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Apple is not marketing the M1 chip on any kind of dimensions of Ghz, cache size, etc. I guess deliberately not playing the Intel game. I would love to know --

Apple is not marketing the M1 chip on any kind of dimensions of Ghz, cache size, etc. I guess deliberately not playing the Intel game. I would love to know -- is an absolute Ghz metric meaningful at all with this line of chips then, for any type of user? Does that matter for some special application, or not at all? What happens when they want to increment the speed for next generation, does it become just M2? And, in the manufacturing process, what happens to the chips with lower yield/performance? Do those get sold somehow and we don't know about it?

reader_mode 6y ago
Has Apple ever done that ? If they went to the specs it becomes a commodity hardware device that you can compare with competitors. Apple is in the business of selling you Apple devices - and it's fast - unlabelled graph faster than previous generation.
- haunter 6y ago
  >Has Apple ever done that ? Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsn27J_tlo&feature=youtu.be&t=130 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwsn27J_tlo&feature=youtu.be...
- dagw 6y ago
  Has Apple ever done that ? Years ago Apple had a massive marketing campaign built around trying to "teach" people that you couldn't compare PPC GHz with X86 GHz, and on the whole it was a bit of a flop and people just went on assuming that a 2.5GHz processor was faster than a 2GHz processor. I guess they learnt their lesson and instead of trying to convince people that smaller numbers actually sometimes are better than big numbers, they now just never mention the smaller number.