[philistine]

Apple has frustratingly skipped entire Intel generations in the past, leaving their computers to languish for years without updates.

If the big Macbook Pro is only released this Fall or next Spring, it will be business as usual for Apple.

Same goes for an update to the M1 Macbook Air. I expect that machine to be updated next year at the earliest, with something akin to an M3.

[historyloop]

I wonder if they can't ship the same M1 but with some external RAM and GPU. It won't speed up some apps, but it'll help with Pro apps.

[p_l]

If you look at all sorts of limitations on the M1 macs (less ports, only one external screen except on Mini where its one DP and one HDMI) it's plain that it's paying the price for using a phone SoC in a general purpose computer - no generic expansion buses, connectors optimised for phone use case, etc.

And they are banking hard on unified memory model in all sorts of marketing zbut it's unclear if it's the cause or effect of ring unable to use external GPU.