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Geekbench stats show Apple Silicon MacBook Air trouncing pricey 16-inch MacBook Pro

Dave 126 Silver badge

> I'm curious to know if there's any multi CPU support in these?

And others will want to know the GPU roadmap. Okay, right now Apple making a Mac Mini and MacBooks Pro and Air with the same chip is smart. The MacBook Pro sends the message that Apple Silicon can handle 'pro' tasks, the lower end machines mean that more developers can afford one.

Now, Apple *could* have announced an ARM chip with more PCIe lanes, Thunderbolt, and RAM - but why would they? The market for these pricier mission-critical machines is more cautious and wouldn't buy on day one anyway, since it'll take a bit of time for those M1 MacBooks to demonstrate their prowess, assuage compatability fears and attract developers. In the meantime, Apple can spend the next year continuing to develop the M2, M2X Super Turbo etc, plus their own discrete GPU.

Yep, a GPU. It's not been mentioned much, but their roadmap slides at WWDC showed no AMD GPUs alongside Apple CPUs.

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