The new M1-based MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini are best thought of not as three different computers, but rather three different manifestations of the same computer.
It’s the difference between using their amazing mobile chips in desktops, and using their chip expertise to design desktop-focused chips.Īpple billed yesterday’s event as “One More Thing”, and while they announced three new Macs, it really was about one new thing: the M1. Apple could have gone this route, performance-wise, at least for the consumer grade devices, but the Apple Silicon segment of the WWDC keynote sounded to me like they were suggesting a far more ambitious endeavor. That Macs wouldn’t be sharing chips with iPhones and iPads. My basic theory, since the announcement during this year’s WWDC keynote that Apple was - finally - moving the Mac platform from Intel’s x86 architecture to their own custom silicon, has been that they would not merely be using A-series chips for this. One More Thing: The M1 Macs Wednesday, 11 November 2020
