Here’s a round-up of everything that Apple didn’t announce at the “One More Thing” event on Tuesday. The company unveiled its M1 chip as well as the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini at the virtual event.
Apple hosted the ‘One More Thing’ virtual event on Tuesday to unveil its anticipated silicon, dubbed M1 SoC. The chip is based on an ARM architecture and comes as Apple’s solution to reduce reliance on Intel processors. Alongside the new silicon, the Cupertino company announced the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini based on the M1 chip. During the event, however, the company didn’t provide all the details about the new silicon as well as the latest Mac machines. In this article, we’re rounding up all the information that Apple didn’t provide at the event, but could prove to be quite significant for customers. Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies Johny Srouji highlighted during the virtual event that the M1 chip comes with the world’s fastest integrated graphics. He also detailed the eight-core GPU architecture that is capable of executing nearly 25,000 threads at a time. But neither Srouji nor Apple provided any details about whether the M1 chip supports external graphics. However, As AppleInsider reports, the new silicon doesn’t support any external GPUs. This means that the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini will need to rely on the inbuilt GPU for rendering graphics. M1 chip comes with integrated graphicsPhoto Credit: Apple There are no details on whether the unsupported behaviour comes from the M1 chip or is just due to some restrictions at the software level. Nevertheless, Apple has removed the Blackmagic eGPU from the list of compatible accessories for MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini based on the M1 chip to confirm the latest change. In March 2018, Apple brought eGPU support to its Mac family after much anticipation. The move was announced at WWDC 2017 and came into effect with the release of macOS High Sierra 10.13.4. But with the initial M1 rollout, the company seems to have put eGPU support on hold. Apple claims that the M1 chip is capable of delivering up to 3.5 times faster CPU performance than previous-generation Macs. However, post the event on Tuesday, it was found that the new chip currently seems to have a limit of getting up to 16GB of RAM.
