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Against M5, Apple claims graphics up to 30 percent faster, AI workloads up to 25 percent faster and a Neural Engine up to 1.9x faster. Memory is 16 GB standard, 32 GB maximum. The quoted bandwidth became the thread's sticking point.
Owners of older machines used it to say they are not upgrading.
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Apple almost never raises prices on a product it already shipped; it waits for a new chip to justify the number. This week it broke that rule across the Mac and iPad lines, blaming a memory-cost spike it called unprecedented. The base iPad went from $299 to as much as $449.
The asterisk from the thread: Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron are now each worth over $1.3 trillion, with memory gross margins reported above 80%. The shortage that 'forced' the hike is also minting the suppliers.
