I was looking over the Tech Specs and it never mentioned the SSD's throughput.Agreed. There's margin in the power adapter for:
- Power over the USB-C ports
- The display
The display can be pretty power hungry. My 38" is 85W typical, and I wouldn't be surprised if the 24" iMac is around 40W depending on brightness settings. If I assume a guarantee of 5W per port, that's another 20W, and the Mac mini draws around 39W peak from the wall. So I could easily see an adapter built to handle around 100+W peaks wanted for this.
Having more buffer also keeps the power brick in the more efficient zone on top of that.
Here's to the 32" 6K iMac Pro! Hopefully with something better than an overclocked M1!