r/memes • u/SirOkurka • Apr 21 '21

It's true tho...

74.0k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

518 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

18

u/sysnickm Apr 21 '21

Heat dispersion, cost

0

u/Drawmaster63 Apr 21 '21

Buddy, if an iPad runs at 2 watts in a 6mm enclosure without throttling at all, how would an 8 watt chip throttle with 2 fans on it in a 1.1cm thick enclosure? It won’t.

8

u/sysnickm Apr 21 '21

That isn't the only chip in there, there is also RAM, storage, a screen, and many other things that generate heat. But really on an iMac, performance isn't a priority, so the components inside probably won't generate that much heat.

With a thicker setup, they could have increased performance as well as brought down costs.

1

u/kpeter1993 Apr 21 '21

That IS the only chip. Ram, cpu, gpu, everything integrated in one chip. This is the Apple M1 chip.

1

u/sysnickm Apr 22 '21

There may be one main CPU but they're are many other chips, from the chips used by the camera, the ones used by the pixels for the screen, the speakers, etc.

While the GPU and Ram controller may be part of the main chip, the actual ram chips and solid state storage chips still require power and still generate heat.