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Except sadly it is not using M. My first Mac was a Mac - ie the first Mac. 128k of memory and $1000 (with the student discount!) in 1994. I've had every archit
by intrasight 8mo ago
Except sadly it is not using M.
My first Mac was a Mac - ie the first Mac. 128k of memory and $1000 (with the student discount!) in 1994.
I've had every architecture of Mac since then - except for M.
This one might just have inspired me to try a Mac again - if it had an M.
- bell-cot 8mo ago's/in 1994/in 1984/', perhaps?
- intrasight 8mo agoYes. Thanks.
- philistine 8mo agoThe M-series is just marketing. They're just the A-series with more cores and IO. Apple has one family of CPUs, but they give them different names.
- esskay 8mo agoThey dont need to use an M series. The chip they are using isn't far off (spec wise) a base M4. It's single threaded performance is damn good.
- intrasight 8mo agoI didn't realize that. I thought it was a different architecture - or different enough that the two couldn't run the same binaries. Are they indeed binary compatible?
- jamiek88 8mo agoYes! It’s simply a naming convention.
- sjs382 8mo agoYou can run iOS apps on an Apple Silicon Mac if the developer doesn't explicitly prevent you.
- menno-sh 7mo agoAdditionally Apple have been sticking M-series chips in iPads for a while now. They appear to be pretty much interchangeable.
- esskay 8mo agoYeah theres very little difference at this point between the A and M lines, think of the M as just being the more powerful line, but that doesnt make the A line weak, not by any stretch. Both are completely binary compatible at this point. The A18 Pro single core performance is on-par with the M4 (a smidge lower but barely anything in it), and outperforms the M3.
- trillic 7mo agoA18 Pro Geekbench on an iPhone: Single: 3539 Multi-core: 8772 Macbook Air M1 Geekbench: Single: 2347 Multi-core: 8342