John Siracusa

Even today, if you buy a gaming PC, you can get a gaming PC with 16 gigs of RAM and you can get a video card with like, I don't know, like eight gigs of VRAM in it.

That's still to this day how gaming PCs work.

They have dedicated video memory on your NVIDIA card that's just for the GPU and they have dedicated RAM that's for the CPU.

but that's not how Apple things work.

And believe me, Apple does not take a 16 gig computer and then take the eight gigs from the video card and combine them.

No, you just get the 16 or eight in the case of the Neo.

So again, the way they make this work is because the RAM is very fast.

We always talk about those memory bandwidth figures that we give very fast, very high bandwidth, very low latency.

And it is equally fast when the CPU is using it or the GPU is using it.

And the CPU and the GPU are in the same SOC.

even if they're not on the same die as they are on the M5 Pro and M5 Max.

So anyway, that's what's unified about it.

It has unified VRAM and regular RAM into a single pool of RAM.

But that single pool of RAM is on RAM chips made by the same RAM manufacturers to make everybody else's RAM chips.

And that's why I'm going to pay way too much money for my Mac studio.

Maybe if you're lucky, you know, so does this charge the same way as the Apple Watch does like inductive like a pad or a thing that like it's not inductive.

Interesting.

I wonder if you could just buy any charger at a gas station and rip open the wires and just take the positive and negative and hold them to the two contacts on the bottom of the wire.

Just apply five volts across these terminals and hope for the best.

Yeah, I mean, like, it's... I was asking whether it was inductive, like, that you needed some kind of coil that exactly matches and aligned to the thing, but if it's two, like, pin contacts, that's real old school.