Please Apple. 32GB RAM and 10GbE and I'll buy one right now.
I don't use Thunderbolt. My 10Gbe Aquantia AQC-107s card is PCIe3 x4 based and so is the one in QNAP.IIRC Thunderbolt used 8b/10b encoding (same as PCIe v2), so it takes 10 bits to transfer a single 8-bit byte, to handle the protocol overheads.
So you are probably getting 8500Mbps data transmission if you are transferring 850MB/s, which is quite decent.
Also, the SI units of kilo, mega, giga etc are in fact decimal units, not base-2 numbers such as 1024, 1,048,576 etc. (https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si-prefixes). Nearly all HDD/SSD manufacturers use this system because, no surprise, it is smaller and makes their product appear larger to anyone expecting a base-2 derived capacity.
The correct prefixes for the base-2 numbers are: kibi, mebi, gibi etc. ("bi" for "Binary Byte"), with memory/storage capacities written as KiB, MiB, GiB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix . Note the "mebibyte" is abbreviated MiB, not MeB...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
RAM is still produced in binary increments, unlike storage, so it's pretty common to see "GiB" specified, e.g. look at the spec of these AWS compute instance sizes: https://www.ec2instances.info
“A single port”, I’m clueless about what this means?The M1 has as many controllers as the intel but each one of them only supports a single port. So yes 2 controllers but only 2 ports.
It means that each physical port you see on the back of the mini has its own controller. Intel controllers support 2 physical ports.“A single port”, I’m clueless about what this means?
No daisy chaining devices? (which would be a shame)
Is this also related to not being able to connect more than two screens (or one on macbooks)?
I do photo and video work. 4K and above video will eat any and all bandwidth. I have a 16TB RAID0 array in a PC tower and use 10GbE to TB3 to my 16" MBP. On the tower I get 1.5GB/s reads so 10GbE is actually limiting my RAID array speeds on the mac but it's enough for streaming content into Adobe Premiere seamlessly
Yes, the Apple SSD prices are excessive compared to market prices. I just ordered an M1 Mini and the cost of going from 256GB to 512GB is as much as a 1TB NVMe that I bought last year.It also reminds me the only real gripe I have about these for use right now. I would buy one now if Apple had just a simple M2 slot to put drives in there. Video/music, as my wife is doing has a need of expandable space. She's using a PC now and we have a 500GB internal SATA just to put all the scratch and demo work.
I could make do attaching an external drive, of course. That won't get the same performance. Also messes with some of the footprint advantages of the MacMini. Frankly, I feel like there's no good reason to NOT engineer an M2 replaceable slot other than Apple doesn't want customers to have it. They charge more than twice the price of the device to put a 2TB drive in there now.
It also reminds me the only real gripe I have about these for use right now. I would buy one now if Apple had just a simple M2 slot to put drives in there. Video/music, as my wife is doing has a need of expandable space. She's using a PC now and we have a 500GB internal SATA just to put all the scratch and demo work.
I could make do attaching an external drive, of course. That won't get the same performance. Also messes with some of the footprint advantages of the MacMini. Frankly, I feel like there's no good reason to NOT engineer an M2 replaceable slot other than Apple doesn't want customers to have it. They charge more than twice the price of the device to put a 2TB drive in there now.
Yes, the Apple SSD prices are excessive compared to market prices. I just ordered an M1 Mini and the cost of going from 256GB to 512GB is as much as a 1TB NVMe that I bought last year.
Have you considered getting a Thunderbolt/NVMe enclosure for an external M2 drive? You should be able to get close to the internal storage speeds. This one claims up to 2800MB/s: https://www.amazon.com/Thunderbolt-Enclosure-Thunderbolt3-NVME-Drive/dp/B07N67P39W/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1JYCQQ0WAE71R&dchild=1&keywords=thunderbolt+nvme+40gbps&qid=1606086527&sprefix=Thunderbolt+NVMe,aps,366&sr=8-3
A NAS is a good solution for certain things. We have a computer connected to the TV with media shared throughout the house. I use the house server for copy/pasting large static files such as installation files.So in your case, you could just set up your PC as a NAS for your Mac with 256 GB of SSD.
You can get a USB-C -> 2.5G adaptor for $40 on amazon. You can't use both ports for video anyway so why not. If ~270MB/s is enough for ya.I am seriously considering replacing my 2010 MacPro with an M1 mini. Especially if they can come with a 10G ethernet.
linus is stupid about this stuff he is a windows guy and things he knows anything about apple while he doesnt know anything at all. see the video where he says the macbook air pro and mac mini use a ipad chipSomeone tell Linus
32gb will properly come with the next gen M ChipPlease Apple. 32GB RAM and 10GbE and I'll buy one right now.
32gb will properly come with the next gen M Chip
More RAM is not going to happen with the M1 - the low power DDR4 they use with it maxes out at 16GB.Please Apple. 32GB RAM and 10GbE and I'll buy one right now.
ya if u dont have a good enginering team then its hard to make a great chipSamsung has already given up on custom Exynos cores and future Exynos will just be standard ARM core designs.
To be fair, it’s unlikely that a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, that they were speaking English.Sure...if only the original screenwriter knew that a Parsec is a measure of distance and not time, which in the context of the quote seems unlikely: "..made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs"
Some StarWars fans have found a different interpretation of this to correctly apply the meaning of the quote as distance, via a shorter route: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Kessel_Run/Legends
FYI, "parsec"=parallax-second-of-arc, about 3.26 light years
Linus seems to be willfully ignorant, or I suspect, simply pandering to the prejudices of his Windows-centric followers.linus is stupid about this stuff he is a windows guy and things he knows anything about apple while he doesnt know anything at all. see the video where he says the macbook air pro and mac mini use a ipad chip