[webmobdev]

Your whole tactic during this debate is to just throw lot of technical jargons to try and confuse the reader and to evade the actual fact - all the hardware changes Apple has made has also been done to create a closed system to support the software services.

All the techno-babble spouted by you, to make yourself appear more knowledgeable, and the cheap potshot on me (also an engineer), desperately tries to hide the fact that high performing modular RAM architecture already exist without all the modifications Apple has made to their hardware with the aim to deliberately create an un-repairable and closed system.

I have clearly pointed out how Apple has been converting the macOS into a closed system, on both the hardware and software front, over the years. This is an undisputable fact as the only thing that now distinguishes the M1 Macs and the iPhone / iPad platform is the bootloader.

And looking at Apple's business model, it is only logical that Apple will soon be locking the bootloader of the Macs too, once it reaches a critical level of acceptance (and we are far off from that, for now).

The M1 is undoubtedly a great piece of hardware - but it has been deliberately designed with built-in planned obsolescence. That's good for Apple's profit margin. But not for us consumers.

[marcan_42]

Ah yes, "technobabble".

I'll go back to porting Linux to this thing then; clearly you're not interested in hearing about how these things are designed.

It doesn't take being a senior hardware engineer to be able to count bus width and calculate bandwidth, though, so I'm still curious how you want a laptop built with the 8 DIMM slots it'd take to match the memory bandwidth of the M1 Max. Remember, these things have high performance integrated GPUs, that perform at the same level as discrete ones. Ever wonder why discrete GPUs haven't had modular RAM for a couple decades now? Yeah. Bus width.

> high performing modular RAM architecture already exist

The M1 Max has a memory bandwidth of 409 GB/sec. A top spec EPYC server (Rome) chip has 410 GB/sec of memory bandwidth, with 8 channels populated with the fastest RAM they'll take.

Indeed, high performing modular RAM architectures do exist. In servers that eat huge amounts of power and require 8 DIMMs to go that fast. Good luck fitting that into a laptop.

But I guess this is all still just technobabble to you :-)