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Sure, but that's a customer expectation vs legal obligation. Like, my sister bought the new M1 MacBook Air, only to discover that it doesn't support dual exter
by gambiting 5y ago
Sure, but that's a customer expectation vs legal obligation.
Like, my sister bought the new M1 MacBook Air, only to discover that it doesn't support dual external screens - while her previous Air did. So there was absolutely an expectation there that any new MacBook Air would also support dual screens, right?
But, at the end of the day - it is mentioned in the spec sheet. She could have checked. Just assuming that a feature is there is not enough. What's more - if dual screens worked originally, and then they stopped working after an update - that wouldn't be a bait and switch either, it would be a fix to bring the computer back in line with its spec.
And yes, I agree that it would suck.
- marcan_42 5y agoThe difference is dual screens don't work on the M1 MBA because it physically only has two display controllers in the silicon, one of them wired to the internal panel, and the other muxed to the two TB ports. The M1 Pro has two external display controllers, and the M1 Max four. I can show you where they are on the die shots, and that it's not artificial crippling. But what Intel is doing here is disabling existing silicon that exists and works.
- gambiting 5y agoSure, but as a customer that's irrelevant, right? You had a MacBook Air, used it with two displays, then you buy a new MacBook Air and bam, it doesn't work with two displays. The technical nitty gritty is not really relevant - at least the comment I was replying to sounded this way. That what the customer expects is more important than what is on the spec sheet? The fact that previous Intel CPU supported AVX-512, and the new one doesn't - so whether this fact is or isn't mentioned in the spec sheet is not important, because what the customer expects should be ultimately what decides what is "ok".