What does it all mean, and will you want one?
“I’m very excited about the rumors that there will be two versions of the new M1X chip.
The current M1 MacBooks Air and Pro are pretty much just the old Intel-based designs with new innards.
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And that case also will sport more varied ports than the current USB-C-only MacBooks.
And about those USB-C ports.
Some of the current M1 Macs have four USB ports, but they sprout from two Thunderbolt busses inside.
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Ideally, a pro machine should have one dedicated Thunderbolt bus per port for maximum data transfer.
But there’s more.
“I’m also happy to see that the MagSafe charging system is back in action.
I wasn’t a fan of the USB-C style charging point and think that mag-safe design is much better.
I’m very excited about the rumors that there will be two versions of the new M1X chip.
One with a 16 core GPU and one with a 32 core GPU.
But what does M1X mean, exactly?
Previously., Apple has used an X to denote a more powerful version of its A-series iPhone chips.
TheA12X Bionic SoCin the 2018 iPad Pro was a variant on that year’s A12 iPhone chip.
It packed in billions more transistors and had more CPU and GPU cores than the simpler A12.
But there are some logical problems here.
One is that the chip that Apple calls the M1 also could have been called the A14X.
That could happen, but so far, the rumors and supply-chain analysis point to an M1-based system.
We’ll only know for sure on Monday morning when Apple announces the lineup.
It’s a pretty exciting time to be a Mac user.
