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Cool, now show me upgrading your M1 to an M2.

cokeandpepsi 4y ago
- postalrat 4y ago
  Funny fanboy
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- Dylan16807 4y ago
  I think you misread the question? They asked how you upgrade an M1 to an M2. In this scenario there are no x86 chips.
- nixgeek 4y ago
  I think 18 days ago you might have said something to the the tune of you’d never do business with Apple again. You changed your mind fast. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32188366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32188366
  - xeromal 4y ago
    This is ridiculous. Why do people behave this way?
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lhl 4y ago
A YouTuber, Luke Miani, gave it a try recently. Of course it doesn't work, but it was interesting to see that mechanically everything fits and the chassis is of course practically identical, but it doesn't work because FU that's why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_jckhYfGBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_jckhYfGBw No surprises there. Apple also firmware locks the swappable storage modules on the recent Mac Studio: https://www.engadget.com/mac-studio-ssd-software-lock-211410274.html https://www.engadget.com/mac-studio-ssd-software-lock-211410... No repairs or upgrades for their customers.
jrockway 4y ago
Does it matter? I have a Threadripper 3970x and an M1 Macbook Air. For anything that can't use more than 4 cores, the M1 crushes it. The Threadripper also draws over 100W at idle. Whatever AMD and Intel have right now are completely irrelevant, and I say that as one of the biggest haters of OS X there is. I'm not trading in my workstation for a Mac Studio or whatever, though, because I'm guessing AMD's 5nm chips will probably perform even better than the M1/M2. Plus games. Games are nice.
- diffeomorphism 4y ago
  > Does it matter? You are commenting on a thread discussing just that, so yeah it kinda matters.
- BaseballPhysics 4y ago
  For a site about "hacker" news, this comment is wild to me. It seems we've truly reached the apex of disposable consumer culture, where even our most powerful technology is something we just throw in the trash and re-purchase when something fails or newer technology becomes available. I can only hope that companies like Framework can reverse some of this trend. Because as it stands, our already unsustainable culture has gotten to the point where it seems folks no longer remember that anything else is possible, or why we might want to think differently.
  - jrockway 4y ago
    I guess "stuff" isn't really the problem with the current society. If you write software for a living, the company that has a 50% faster hack/test/ship cycle is the one that wins the market. It is a shame that you have to throw away a power supply, keyboard, and screen every few years to get that faster cycle, and Framework helps there. But at the same time, the chips that Framework uses waste valuable electricity and don't perform particularly well. That's just where Intel is at right now. That is likely to change, and Framework is interesting from the standpoint of "when Intel gets their act together, look at our balance of performance and sustainability". That's not where they're at right now, though. Not Frameworks' fault; nobody is selling mobile arm64 chips that have remotely competitive performance. It's the late 1970s again; hopefully the clones show up to kill "IBM" again. Realistically, people are burning the rainforest to sell pictures of smoking monkeys and burn dead dinosaurs to drive to get coffee every morning. Recycling your laptop's screen every 5 years is not really making a dent into our current planet-killing habits. It feels good to help in a small way, but what feels good is not necessarily meaningful.

postalrat 4y ago
Funny fanboy
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Dylan16807 4y ago
I think you misread the question? They asked how you upgrade an M1 to an M2. In this scenario there are no x86 chips.
nixgeek 4y ago
I think 18 days ago you might have said something to the the tune of you’d never do business with Apple again. You changed your mind fast. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32188366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32188366
- xeromal 4y ago
  This is ridiculous. Why do people behave this way?
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lhl 4y ago

A YouTuber, Luke Miani, gave it a try recently. Of course it doesn't work, but it was interesting to see that mechanically everything fits and the chassis is of course practically identical, but it doesn't work because FU that's why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_jckhYfGBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_jckhYfGBw No surprises there. Apple also firmware locks the swappable storage modules on the recent Mac Studio: https://www.engadget.com/mac-studio-ssd-software-lock-211410274.html https://www.engadget.com/mac-studio-ssd-software-lock-211410... No repairs or upgrades for their customers.

jrockway 4y ago

Does it matter? I have a Threadripper 3970x and an M1 Macbook Air. For anything that can't use more than 4 cores, the M1 crushes it. The Threadripper also draws over 100W at idle. Whatever AMD and Intel have right now are completely irrelevant, and I say that as one of the biggest haters of OS X there is. I'm not trading in my workstation for a Mac Studio or whatever, though, because I'm guessing AMD's 5nm chips will probably perform even better than the M1/M2. Plus games. Games are nice.

diffeomorphism 4y ago
> Does it matter? You are commenting on a thread discussing just that, so yeah it kinda matters.
BaseballPhysics 4y ago
For a site about "hacker" news, this comment is wild to me. It seems we've truly reached the apex of disposable consumer culture, where even our most powerful technology is something we just throw in the trash and re-purchase when something fails or newer technology becomes available. I can only hope that companies like Framework can reverse some of this trend. Because as it stands, our already unsustainable culture has gotten to the point where it seems folks no longer remember that anything else is possible, or why we might want to think differently.
- jrockway 4y ago
  I guess "stuff" isn't really the problem with the current society. If you write software for a living, the company that has a 50% faster hack/test/ship cycle is the one that wins the market. It is a shame that you have to throw away a power supply, keyboard, and screen every few years to get that faster cycle, and Framework helps there. But at the same time, the chips that Framework uses waste valuable electricity and don't perform particularly well. That's just where Intel is at right now. That is likely to change, and Framework is interesting from the standpoint of "when Intel gets their act together, look at our balance of performance and sustainability". That's not where they're at right now, though. Not Frameworks' fault; nobody is selling mobile arm64 chips that have remotely competitive performance. It's the late 1970s again; hopefully the clones show up to kill "IBM" again. Realistically, people are burning the rainforest to sell pictures of smoking monkeys and burn dead dinosaurs to drive to get coffee every morning. Recycling your laptop's screen every 5 years is not really making a dent into our current planet-killing habits. It feels good to help in a small way, but what feels good is not necessarily meaningful.