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Originally Posted by kscherer
It just occurred to me why the M1 is now in the iPad Pro. When you consider that the iPad Pro was already more than capable enough with an Ax chip, adding the M1 improves economies of scale so the price of the M1 can be spread across more devices, thus lowering the per-device component cost of the chip.
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Definitely.
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Originally Posted by kscherer
I suspect that in 3-5 years we will begin seeing $700 MB Airs, $500 Mac Minis, and $1000 iMacs—all running Apple Silicon.
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Maybe.
If Apple had wanted to do cheaper Intel Macs, they could've. Using Pentium/Celeron, say.