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I always assumed the "M" in the M1 designation meant "mobile" and that higher-powered (in terms of processing, electricity, and heat dissipation) would be comin

by mikece 6y ago

I always assumed the "M" in the M1 designation meant "mobile" and that higher-powered (in terms of processing, electricity, and heat dissipation) would be coming later and have a different letter designator. Either that or we'll get Air/Pro suffixes to the chip numbers (eg: M1 Pro, M2 Air...)

mcintyre1994 6y ago
M for mobile could make sense given they've just put an M1 in an iPad Pro. I assumed it was Mac before that and we'd get an M1X or something for higher end models but that seems wrong now.
- mft_ 6y ago
  ...but they also just put it in the iMac...
  - wffurr 6y ago
    The iMac has long used laptop grade parts.
  - mcintyre1994 6y ago
    The variant of it that uses laptop parts, but fair point. Mobile does seem a stretch for iMac. Let's just call it Apple's unique naming convention :)
danaris 6y ago
...I always thought it was for "Mac". Though the fact that they've just labeled the chip in the latest iPad Pro as such does add a bit of confusion to that.