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It sounds like the chip is fast but I wonder, if like other M1 products, the computers built with it will be fairly restricted, like a console, in terms of the hardware they're able to use (not being able to boot off external HDDs, problems with thunderbolt 3 compatibility in peripherals, having to use abstraction layers to run most of the software world indirectly or have specific porting projects dedicated to M1, etc).

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Maybe this is the same marketing speak as we've seen with the 1600 nits peak, and 1000 nits sustained brightness claim for the new mini led displays. Which later became 500 nits for SDR content, when ambient temperature allows. [0]

I want to see proper benchmarks before getting too exited.

[0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-new-MacBook-Pro-14-only-ma...

> having to use abstraction layers to run most of the software world indirectly

Nearly everything I use daily is built for M1 now.

https://isapplesiliconready.com/

And honestly, if it's not, its a good indication that it's time to move away from that product as they don't care about a huge segment of their users.

Dropbox and Signal are the only two I ever use, and yeah, the lack of interest in porting to M1 from both of those companies is increasing my lack of interest in their apps.

That page says that both of those apps are supported.

I believe Dropbox was in the last few months. Which was still over a year after public release of the M1.

I'm sure most extremely popular corporate software has been ported. But that's just a tiny fraction of the available software. I know most Apple users don't try anything outside their walled garden so it doesn't make a difference to them, but the vast majority of possible software has not and will not ever be ported to a form that can run on the M1 architecture. Whereas on x86 Apple computers you can compile and run pretty much everything.

Or it's actually a tiny segment of their users.

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