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There can be no real pro M1 yet, I don’t have that much issues with the 16GB limit tho some might people might but the other limitations are really due to SoC i
by dogma1138 5y ago
There can be no real pro M1 yet, I don’t have that much issues with the 16GB limit tho some might people might but the other limitations are really due to SoC itself it doesn’t have sufficient bandwidth to support external GPUs multiple displays and a lot of high bandwidth peripherals.
My own personal theory is that the M1 was not originally designed for laptops it think it was originally intended as an iPad Pro/Pro+ SoC to compete with the higher end Surface devices. This is why likely external GPU support and bandwidth for peripherals wasn’t prioritized, its more than enough for a tablet.
I’m not sure if Apple really expected to get that much performance out of it from the get go, when their early samples did they made a decision to launch a full line including laptops despite the rest of the SoC not being designed for that.