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That's one of my biggest sources of skepticism with the M1 on the long-term — in lieu of improving thermal management, they instead reinvented _everything_ to generate less heat. Which is great! The current state of thermal management at Apple will work great at low TDPs, but they've procrastinated instead of improving. If they don't ever learn how to handle heat, this arch will still have a hard ceiling.

There's nothing in M1 that indicates that Apple learned how to improve thermal management, but lots to indicate that they'd still rather make thinner/lighter devices that compromise on repair, expansion, or sustained high-end performance — the even deeper RAM integration, offering binned parts as the lower-end "budget" option instead of a designed solution, or offering Thunderbolt 3, fewer PCIe lanes, and a lower RAM cap as being enough for a MBP or Mini.