



Are Macs with Intel processors still available?Īpple’s pricier Macs still use Intel processors: the $1,099 Mac mini and the Mac Pro. Get the lowdown on Apple’s unified memory architecture and how memory is used in Apple silicon. UMA is efficient and fast, and it is possible that you may not need as much RAM as you think. The Mac Studio starts at $1,999.Īpple silicon uses a “unified memory architecture,” which is different from how memory is traditionally used in computers, including Intel Macs. The lowest-priced 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro and 32GB of RAM is $2,399, which is a hefty $900 more than the highest-priced standard configuration of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 and 16GB of RAM. If you want an M1 Mac with more than 16GB of RAM, your choices are the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro, and the Mac Studio, which have faster processors. The only way to get more RAM is to buy a Mac with an M1 Pro or M1 Max. The amount of memory in the M1 Macs is a point of contention for some customers, especially those who are used to the practice of having as much RAM as they can in order to do their work. If (sysctlbyname(" Loyola/IDG Can I get an M1 Mac with more than 16GB of RAM? So, where on an x86 Linux machine we might either have used the cpuid instruction, or parsed /proc/cpuinfo ourself to find the CPU model/brand name, here we can use code like this to extract it :- $ cat Ĭhar buffer /* Should be long enough! */ This information is also available via the sysctl set of system calls, and, in particular the sysctlbyname call.

Here we’re asking for hardware and machine information:- $ sysctl -a hw machdep.cpu What we do have on MacOS is the sysctl command, which will show us similar information (though in a less compact form). However, lscpu is not supported on MacOS (at least not to the depth of my Google-fu) that is hardly surprising, since it is effectively a summary of /proc/cpuinfo which is a Linux invention. Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v4 2.10GHzįlags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch epb cat_l3 cdp_l3 invpcid_single intel_ppin intel_pt tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap xsaveopt cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local dtherm ida arat pln pts 1 login node, we see this :-bash-4.2$ lscpu
