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Originally Posted by PB PM
A move to ARM on anything other than entry level products and the MacBook would be a big mistake, unless Apple intends to keep Intel for the Pro models. No way ARM can compete with the 65W+ Higher end Intel and AMD 6-8 core multi-threaded high end desktop chips.
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We don't really have a basis for this assertion.
Maybe?
Maybe not?
Would you have guessed a decade ago that Apple would even be in the ballpark?
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Originally Posted by PB PM
(even the new Mac Mini wasn’t given the latest gem stuff when it was shipping before the Mini came out)
. Could be related to the chip production shortages Intel is having due to their messed up/multi-year delayed transition from 14nm nodes to 10nm.
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Well, it has Coffee Lake, but not Coffee Lake Refresh. It entirely uses 65 W parts, and the eight-core parts in Coffee Lake Refresh all require 95 W. That, and the requirement for an iGPU, leaves us with the 9400, when they currently have three different options.
So I don't think the margins argument holds water in this case. For the iMac? Sure. For the Mac mini, once Ice Lake desktop parts ship and Apple is almost inevitably a laggard in using them? Yeah, definitely.