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Comment by cromka | Hacker News Reader

I mean can you imagine the uproar it would cause if Apple did that?

There wouldn't be any uproar if they're sold as a cheaper lower spec model. Apple could be stockpiling them for later, having led with the higher performance chips for marketing purposes.

But we're not speculating about what would happen if Apple did that explicitly.

We're trying to understand why did the existing M1 Mini perform worse in some of those tests than the M1 Air did, while there is no known reason for it. Some speculate that they inexplicitly sell subpar/low freq chips, which would mean that they were selling an official 7-core, an official 8-core and a faster but otherwise non-advertised version of 8-core. And on top of that, the latter would be installed in Mac Air that has the worst (passive) cooling solution from all current M1 offerings...

That doesn't make sense on any level and is just something Apple could not do and successfully hide from everyone, especially that they already have an explicit binning process.

There has to be some reason for it. If not thermals, then what else about the hardware could explain the difference?

This is why I love HN - this comment-to-comment dialogue and thought progression is always so riveting!

It's funny how we immediately resort to conspiracy theories about Apple and their hardware but completely forgo a substantial chance that it's the original author's human error at cause? It is much more plausible, isn't it, especially if the test results in speech actually also contradict literally every other independent test results out there?

They don't advertise clock speeds, FWIW

See my other response in this thread.

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