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From: Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: Who is going to buy the first Arm (M1) MacBooks?
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 09:47:39 -0000 (UTC)
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In message <131120202006318871%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <slrnrquali.1fdt.g.kreme@ProMini.lan>, Lewis
> <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:

>> 
>> >> (The DTK is not an M1 machine).
>> 
>> > I assumed it was.
>> 
>> You assumed wrong. As was detailed at the time it is a A12X. Literally
>> an iPad chip. It does not have unified memory. It does not have
>> USB-4/TB. It is not the same chip *at all*

> actually, it was an a12z. 

Yes, which differed from the A12X in that it had one more GPU core.

> it was basically an ipad in a mac mini box.

Very much so. I know several people who had them.

> which is good enough for development work.

Yeo, especially considering how simple the transition from Intel to ARM
was for the developers (One spent several days porting, but the others
did their ports in under a day and one spent less than 15 minutes).

The rest of their summer was spent figuring out what fun new things they
could do.

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Anybody who could duck the Vietnam war can certainly duck a couple of
	shoes.