On November 20, the famous disassembly agency iFixit finally released the disassembly report of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro of the M1 version of Apple's self-developed chips. Disassembly shows that the internal layout of the two MacBooks has not changed significantly, and Cook is indeed an expert in inventory management.

Compared with the Intel MacBook Air on the left, the biggest feature of the M1 MacBook Air is that the fan in the upper left corner is removed. Considering the low heat of M1 chip, it will not overheat and reduce frequency in normal use (although geekbench multi-core test shows that the MacBook Air can not run fully due to heat dissipation). M1 chip is covered with a large heat sink.

MacBook Air Main Board ↑

MacBook Pro motherboard ↑

For MacBook Pro, the layout changes are less than for MacBook Air. It is still a dream single heat pipe design, but it is more than enough to press M1. The fan is exactly the same as the Intel version of MacBook Pro. The secret that the new MacBook Pro's fan is still quiet under high load seems to be that the M1 has a very high energy efficiency ratio and low heat (Apple M1 Yes!!!).

The most concerned Apple M1 chip looks like the top cover of the processor has been cut in half. On the right is Apple's "unified memory" (the A12Z and A12X on the iPad are also packaged in this way). The advantage is that the memory delay is reduced, but it cannot be replaced later. Users who want to choose the 8GB memory version should think twice before acting. The memory is Hynix LPDDR4x, 4266MHz. Because M1 has encryption and security functions, the T2 chip on the MacBook series has been canceled on the new MacBook.

MacBook Air Main Board ↑

MacBook Pro motherboard ↑

Here's a quick review. Apple M1 SoC, with 5nm technology, is homologous to the A14 bionic processor on the iPhone 12 series, with 4 high-performance cores+4 energy efficient cores and 8 core GPUs (only the beggar version of MacBook Air is a 7-core GPU).

From the current tests, even if the compatibility mode is used to run old applications, the performance of the M1 version of MacBook is still very impressive, and for professional purposes such as video clip output, it can even break hands with the 20000 yuan level 16 inch i9 version of MacBook Pro.

The latest version of Chrome has also been re launched in M1 (the previous version had bugs and was "taken off the shelves overnight"), which solves 90% of the "compatibility needs" of ordinary users at one go. New Macs are becoming more popular. Users who have just bought MacBooks are really "49 years old"

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