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M-2 MacBook Air- What Do You All Think Of It?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1938649" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>To clarify the situation, if you read the articles Randy linked, the issue is that Apple has decided to use a single 256GB chip in the fabric of the low end machines, then add a second 256GB chip to the 512GB machine, two 512GB chips in the 1TB machine, etc. The result of that decision is that the bandwidth to that single chip is less than would be there if there were two chips, running in parallel. The term "cripple" is, I think, a bit over-the-top in that Apple did not slow down any clocking, isn't deliberately slowing down the system clock. Nothing is disabled in the low-end machines. It's like having one lane of traffic on a road instead of two lanes. Fewer overall cars per minute can go by on a one-lane road than a two lane road even at the same speeds per car. Did the jurisdiction "cripple" the road by having one lane? Or is it just that one-lane roads are cheaper to build?</p><p></p><p>To specifically answer your question, yes, the 512 has two chips in the fabric.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1938649, member: 396914"] To clarify the situation, if you read the articles Randy linked, the issue is that Apple has decided to use a single 256GB chip in the fabric of the low end machines, then add a second 256GB chip to the 512GB machine, two 512GB chips in the 1TB machine, etc. The result of that decision is that the bandwidth to that single chip is less than would be there if there were two chips, running in parallel. The term "cripple" is, I think, a bit over-the-top in that Apple did not slow down any clocking, isn't deliberately slowing down the system clock. Nothing is disabled in the low-end machines. It's like having one lane of traffic on a road instead of two lanes. Fewer overall cars per minute can go by on a one-lane road than a two lane road even at the same speeds per car. Did the jurisdiction "cripple" the road by having one lane? Or is it just that one-lane roads are cheaper to build? To specifically answer your question, yes, the 512 has two chips in the fabric. [/QUOTE]
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