Future of MacBook Pro

[Alameda]

1. Physics, with a SOC like the M series the ram is built into the CPU and GPU so data has to travel much less distance significantly reducing latency and signal degradation

2. Wider memory buses for higher bandwidth, versus narrower interfaces in socked/upgradable setups limited by pin counts and traces.

3. Optimized, proprietary interfaces without socket overhead like inductance or standardized protocols that constrain speeds in upgradeable RAM setups.

Its like a normal engine that is designed for public use and therefore has to support a wide variety of fuels vs a highly tuned engine optimized to a specific fuel (race gas, E85, etc) it can squeeze out way more power but then you are stuck with whatever it is tuned for.

The speed differences are why GPUs have never been able to use the socketed RAM. Its just way too slow for GPU purposes, but with a SOC like the M series the GPU can use the same RAM as the CPU allowing the studio for example to have access to 512 GB of video ram (- some RAM for running the system etc) allowing it to run huge AI models that would require extremely expensive and power hungry GPUs running together to even compete (like 10s of thousands of dollars worth of GPUs)

Yeah, right, I’m sure there’s just no possible way to do it…

 

[chrono1081]

But will it with tandem OLED? Any iPad Pro M4 users care to chime in?

I've never had any burn in and I've had mine since day one.

 

[Christopher Kim]

Same - I got my M4 11" iPP a few months after it came out. I even got AppleCare+ (and still have it for this) even when I usually don't for my iPads. Because of the newness of the tandem OLED, I wanted to be covered if some issues popped up down the road (eg. like the butterfly kbs of the 2016-2020 MBP lineup). So far, zero issues. So that's good news that Apple hopefully has a good handle on the technology.

True longevity of the screen will be 3-4 years from now - but if it can keep this up, will be good. And hopefully speaks well for it coming to the next-redesigned MBP.

 

[dmccloud]

But will it with tandem OLED? Any iPad Pro M4 users care to chime in?

I have seen a lot of iPad Pros with Tandem OLEDs that have needed repairs, but not a single one was due to ghosting/burn-in on the displays.