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Originally Posted by turtle
The really interesting part is the actual lack of diversity with the M1. What is actually different generally speaking? Screen size and cooling solutions right? At least everything will be consistent.
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Yup.
The M1 is really an A14 with more cores (4+4 vs. 2+4), and slightly faster ones (3.2 GHz vs. 3.0), and some added features like Thunderbolt. So, a faster iPhone / iPad Air, if you will.
And it spans the entire range of the iPad Pro and MacBook Air (both fanless), the Mac mini, MacBook Pro (one fan each), and the iMac (two fans, as I understand it). All have up to 16 GiB RAM; some come in 8 GiB options. All have either 7 or 8 GPU cores. All have exactly the same CPU clock speed and core count; they only differ, due to active cooling, in how long they can sustain their full clock speed. All have the same GPU, the same Neural Engine, and the same what-we-used-to-call chipset. All have similar limitations, like up to two Thunderbolt ports, and up to two displays (in the case of laptops, one of them being the internal display).
The iMac is, both visually and in many of its internals, an iPad Pro with a bigger, non-touch screen, and no battery.