First gen Apple products are always slightly underwhelming.
Hope we hear the same for the hardware as well. Crossing fingers these don’t have screen, keyboard, etc. issues.
It isn't intentionally crippled, it is designed for the intended use. It makes sense for Apple to start with the SoC that easiest to achieve and target the highest volume segment; they have essentially achieved parity with outgoing models in terms of memory, storage and ports. The specs are more than enough for students, general business use and majority of home use.
Exactly my issue, right now my main machine is a Mac Mini - 64GB with more than 2TB ports in use, an external GPU supporting 3x 4K monitors.... I don't need an external GPU if the internal one is good enough, but I want the support for up to 3 monitors and more memory.
For people with your requirements the higher end Intel Mac mini still exists. I assume that once a higher end M SoC is launched for the higher end MBP or iMac it will become an option for the Mini as well.
Nothing mysterious, the so called "latest" flash technology has probably been around awhile, Apple was just stingy and just used a cheaper and slower flash for the Intel Air.
I guess there are multitude of reasons. One is price and the decrease of it and another certainly is that they didn’t upgrade the MBAs before because they already had the Apple Silicon MacBook Air already in their pipeline and wanted to give it an extra WOW !
Good question, that's what I am looking at too. This new chip and tech seems a big step forward. Finally time to retire my 2009 Mini I think
I can imagine Apple not allowing the MacBook Air to have a 4TB SSD forcing consumers to buy the MBP if they want that size SSD. I hope I'm wrong but that seems like the type of thing Apple might do.
Except the M1 laptops replace *only* the low-end Intel Macs which had similar restrictions. Yes, the 2018 mini had more ports/RAM but it was also more expensive because there was no low-end. Personally, I question whether Apple initially intended to release an M1 mini or they just hurried one out the door because they already had the DTK (similar unit with A12Z) an the M1 was more performant than expected. Regardless, they still sell the higher-end Intel variations to meet your needs.First gen Apple products are always slightly underwhelming.
iPhone 1 without 3G support, iPad 1 very heavy and no camera, MacBook Air 1 very expensive and low HDD capacity, Apple Watch 1 was slow and did all the processing on the iPhone and so on.
So the M2 products or whatever they will call these successors are the ones to really watch. You can be sure about Apple not giving 100% with these M1 chips, cause if they give it all there won’t be much to improve upon.
That is true, if you are on battery. If you are plugged in, you should be able to get full speed.
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This was my thought. Maybe they intentionally slowed down the previous sad knowing this was in the pipeline and would be able to use the phrase “twice as fast”.
