This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M4 Max chip. Name: M4 Max Chip Released: November 8th, 2024 Codename: – Part Number: T6041 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 3-Nanometer-E Transistor Count: ~95-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv9.2A . . Memory Bus Width: 384-Bit or 512-Bit Total channels: 3 or 4 Bit per channel: […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M4 Pro chip. Name: M4 Pro Chip Released: November 8th, 2024 Codename: – Part Number: T6040 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 3-Nanometer-E Transistor Count: – CPU ISA: ARMv9.2A . . Memory Bus Width: 256-Bit Total channels: – Bit per channel: – Memory Type: LPDDR5X-8533 (4266 […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M4 chip. Name: M4 Chip Released: May 15th, 2024 Codename: APL1206 Part Number: T8132 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 3-Nanometer-E Transistor Count: 28-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv9.2A . . Memory Bus Width: 128-Bit Total channels: 2 Bit per channel: 64-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5X-7500 (3750 MHz) ~Bandwidth: […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M3 Ultra chip. Name: M3 Ultra Chip Released: March 12th, 2025 Codename: – Part Number: T6032 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 3-Nanometer-B Transistor Count: 184-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.6-A . . Memory Bus Width: 1024-Bit Total channels: 8 Bit per channel: 128-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5-6400 (3200 […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M3 Max chip. Name: M3 Max Chip Released: November 7th, 2023 Codename: APL1204 Part Number: T6034 / T6031 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 3-Nanometer-B Transistor Count: 92 billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.6-A . . Memory Bus Width: 384-Bit or 512-Bit Total channels: 3 or 4 […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M3 Pro chip. Name: M3 Pro Chip Released: November 7th, 2023 Codename: APL1203 Part Number: T6030 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 3-Nanometer-B Transistor Count: 37-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.6-A . . Memory Bus Width: 192-Bit Total channels: 3 Bit per channel: 64-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5-6400 (3200 […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M3 chip. Name: M3 Chip Released: November 7th, 2023 Codename: APL1201 Part Number: T8122 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 3-Nanometer-B Transistor Count: 25-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.6-A . . Memory Bus Width: 128-Bit Total channels: 2 Bit per channel: 64-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5-6400 (3200 MHz) ~Bandwidth: […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M2 Ultra chip. Name: M2 Ultra Chip Released: June 13th, 2023 Codename: APL1W12 Part Number: T6022 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 5-Nanometer-P Transistor Count: 134-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.6-A . . Memory Bus Width: 1024-Bit Total channels: 8 Bit per channel: 128-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5-6400 (3200 […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M2 Max chip. Name: M2 Max Chip Released: January 24th, 2023 Codename: APL1111 Part Number: T6021 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 5-Nanometer-P Transistor Count: 67-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.6-A . . Memory Bus Width: 512-Bit Total channels: 4 Bit per channel: 64-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5-6400 […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M2 Pro chip. Name: M2 Pro Chip Released: January 24th, 2023 Codename: APL1113 Part Number: T6020 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 5-Nanometer-P Transistor Count: 40-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.6-A . . Memory Bus Width: 256-Bit Total channels: 4 Bit per channel: 64-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5-6400 (3200 […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M2 chip. Name: M2 Chip Released: June 24th, 2022 Codename: APL1109 Part Number: T8112 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 5-Nanometer-P Transistor Count: 20-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.6-A . . Memory Bus Width: 128-Bit Total channels: 2 Bit per channel: 64-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5-6400 (3200 MHz) ~Bandwidth: […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M1 Ultra chip. Name: M1 Ultra Chip Released: March 18th, 2022 Codename: APL1W06 Part Number: T6002 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 5-Nanometer Transistor Count: 114-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.5-A . . Memory Bus Width: 1024-Bit Total channels: 8 Bit per channel: 128-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5-6400 (3200 […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M1 Max chip. Name: M1 Max Chip Released: October 26th, 2021 Codename: APL1105 Part Number: T6001 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 5-Nanometer Transistor Count: 57-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.5-A . . Memory Bus Width: 512-Bit Total channels: 4 Bit per channel: 128-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5-6400 (3200 […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M1 Pro chip. Name: M1 Pro Chip Released: October 26th, 2021 Codename: APL1103 Part Number: T6000 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 5-Nanometer Transistor Count: 33.7-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.5-A . . Memory Bus Width: 256-Bit Total channels: 2 Bit per channel: 128-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR5-6400 (3200 […]
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M1 chip. Name: M1 Chip Released: November 17th, 2020 Codename: APL1102 Part Number: T8103 Fabrication Process: TSMC’s 5-Nanometer Transistor Count: 16-Billion CPU ISA: ARMv8.5-A . . Memory Bus Width: 128-Bit Total channels: 2 Bit per channel: 64-Bit Memory Type: LPDDR4X-4266 (2133 MHz) ~Bandwidth: […]
Over the years of being a technology enthusiast I’ve had the opportunity to snap photos of many different electronics, with quite a few close-ups that seemed wallpaper-worthy in my opinion. So went into my photo collection, grabbed up a few I thought were best, and wanted to share them here with everyone. Click on the […]
For the first time ever in the 5 years of the RAID0 array up and running on the Dual 2.0 Power Mac G5.. I ran into a file system/file corruption error. Fortunately, I had the array backed up so I had it back up and running within less than a day. R/W speeds are the […]
In the world of tech this is an ancient tablet from Late 2013, but looks rather modern if you ignore the lack of Touch ID and sit it beside a 9th generation iPad from 2021. And for $20, perhaps is worth a second look as to whether or not it’s useable this day in age. […]
Four years ago today, the world saw the first Apple Silicon Mac to come out after the initial set of three shipped alongside the transition to Apple Silicon. While the M1 Mac mini gets your foot in the door and lets you “BYOB”, some were looking for that familiar all-in-one which also provides a great […]
What originally started as a way to reorganize the splash page for the tech spec index quickly evolved into a deep-dive into every tech spec article – turning into a multi-week long retooling and design project that culminated into a completely re-engineered tech spec index. It seemed like there was a good amount of positive […]
As some of you may know, I’m a huge fan of using Adobe Photoshop (specifically CS4 an on G5 Macs), and I recently re-acquired a hard copy of the Adobe Photoshop CS4: In a Classroom, the book which I used to learn the program to begin with in the early 2010s. In addition to brushing […]
How about a USB 2.0/3.0 SATA 6G adapter that works with just about any hard drive or solid state drive and even has fast transfer speeds on a PowerPC Mac too? Check out – the Apricorn USB to SATA 6G adapter. This PNY SSD previously wouldn’t work inside a PowerPC Mac as it wouldn’t be […]
Early Intel Macs saw their heyday in the early 2010s with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and then some people patching onto Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite.. before ultimately stopping at Mac OS X El Capitan as many Macs lacked SSE 4.1. Many early Intel Macs were eclipsed by later ones with more processing power, but […]
The Apple Silicon steam is rolling, the Intel Macs are in their twilight zone, and PowerPC Macs can still be used in one way or another. Here at Low End Mac, we believe in the long term value of Apple hardware – we want to help elevate your Mac. These apps are already circulated, should […]
As some of you may know, I’m a huge fan of using Adobe Photoshop (specifically CS4 an on G5 Macs), and I recently re-acquired a hard copy of the Adobe Photoshop CS4: In a Classroom, the book which I used to learn the program to begin with in the early 2010s. While I haven’t had […]
1998: In the computer world, it is all too easy to get so bedazzled by the latest and greatest that one’s vision becomes clouded. Currently, the latest and greatest PowerBooks are the G3 Series II “PDQ” models, and they are indeed fabulous machines.
June 26th 1998: ClarisWorks doesn’t get nearly the respect it deserves. For a paltry $99 you can have a modular suite of applications that does everything 90% of users ever need to do with a computer. How many of us actually utilize the power features of fatware like Microsoft Office?
Low End Mac has been through a lot of changes over the years. For much of Low End Mac’s earlier days, we used Claris Home Page to edit and design our content (many different table-based designs). We switched to Cascading Style Sheets some years back and then to WordPress, so every now and again you […]
Apple has had some amazingly closed systems, some with not quite enough expansion, and a few that had so many expansion options that the mind boggles. This article takes a brief look at the most expandable Macs every by CPU.
The first video game console, the $100 Magnavox Odyssey, was released 45 years ago in September 1972. The Odyssey had up to three square dots on its black-and-white screen controlled by wired controllers. Plastic overlays were used along with dice, cards, play money, poker chips, and other board game accessories along with 12 different game cards (the […]
A lot has changed since the first Macintosh. Apple no longer uses a phone connector for its keyboard or DE-9 serial ports for its mouse, printer, and modem. As others have recently pointed out, the only connector still in use from 1984 through today is the analog headphone jack. Macs have always had some form […]
Editor’s note: Back in 2013 when Dan Knight still ran Low End Mac, it was around the time our website was transitioning over from HTML to WordPress. This article documents his experiences and some of his tips for others looking to migrate to WordPress. This article was complete, pulled out of our draft archives from […]
The Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, pronounced scuzzy) that every Mac from the Mac Plus on has supported (except for the iMac and the Blue & White Power Mac G3) is a mixed blessing. SCSI is a parallel interface, meaning that bits of data travel alongside each other rather than in tandem like they do […]
This day in age, a certain recent OS started shipping with it’s own built-in password manager app – and as it turns out, there’s been a password manager app out for PowerPC for a little while! Version 3.5.15 was out in 2010, so this app certainly falls into the category of abandonware. Password managers aren’t […]
This may be old news.. but I just only recently stumbled into this! If you’ve ever wanted to enable two-finger scrolling on your pre-2005 PowerPC ‘Book – there’s an app for that. iScroll 2 is a modified ADB driver, it works with Mac OS X 10.3 and up (although a certain version of the driver […]
