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Yeah it's pretty silly. I guess Apple looked at their market and figured something out that met the majority of use cases, but not having that freedom is very f
by nusl 3y ago
Yeah it's pretty silly. I guess Apple looked at their market and figured something out that met the majority of use cases, but not having that freedom is very frustrating.
- lproven 3y agoI think it's instructive to consider the history of the M1 Macs here. In many ways they are essentially a sort of iPad with a keyboard and a USB port or 2 instead of an iPad or Apple Lightning connector. The GPU is very closely coupled to the CPU inside the SoC, as is the RAM and the soldered-in flash nonvolatile storage. You can't just boot them off USB. You can't just plug in extra drives. You can't add more memory or bigger SSDs without extremely elaborate desoldering of BGA parts. These are not "PCs with an Arm ISA chip". They're a whole computer, disks and all, in a single closed package, without all the buses and connectors of COTS x86 kit -- which is _why_ they are so much faster.