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They look like air vents? Or like the speaker holes at the bottom of an iPhone? Honestly, I'm not sure what they are supposed to be.

No other Finder icon is represented as a chip on a board. The CPU, GPU, and RAM aren't even represented in the Finder. So I don't see the issue with using that as a design.

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The System Information application has a chip and calipers or something.

But regardless, even if CPU/GPU/RAM aren't represented in the Finder, it's still confusing to use such an icon (in many places — presumably Disk Utility and other applications also) since users wouldn't know which of those many things it could represent. TBH, many people don't know the difference between CPU/GPU or RAM/SSD, so they wouldn't know what would/should be shown where.

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