Mac of the Future Here Today…. The Apple M1 chip is the frst chip designed specifcally for Mac. M1 brings incredible performance, custom technologies, and revolutionary power effciency to the Mac. And it was designed to work with macOS Big Sur. It’s a breakthrough moment for Mac. What makes the Apple M1 chip so much faster?

The M1 chip includes an 8-core CPU with four high-performance cores and four high-effciency cores. The high-performance cores are designed to offer the best performance for power- intensive single-threaded tasks.

The four high-performance cores can work together to offer impressive multithreaded performance that has allowed the M1 Macs to outshine even the highest-end 16-inch MacBook Pro models.

What is unifed memory?

M1 features Apple’s unifed memory architecture. M1 unifes its high bandwidth, low- latency memory into a single pool within a custom package. As a result, all the technologies in the SoC (system on a chip) can access the same data without copying it between multiple pools of memory. This dramatically improves performance and power effciency.

Is 16GB the limit for memory on Mac?

Yes, the new M1 Macs offer up to 16GB of high-performance unifed memory.

8GB of memory is standard across the board. Is memory upgradable in any of the new Mac models?

Like the previous generation Mac models, memory isn’t upgradable on the new ones.

But the memory is built right onto the custom package of the M1 chip, which enables signifcantly higher performance and greater power effciency, and customers can choose 8GB or 16GB of system memory. What about the SSD Storage? Is it upgradable in any of the new Mac models?

Like the previous generation Mac models, storage isn’t upgradable on the new ones.

But the SSD is built right onto the custom package of the M1 chip, which enables signifcantly higher performance and greater power effciency.

Customers can choose sizes between 256GB or 2TB of SSD in some models.

And, with Thunderbolt and USB4, performance of an external SSD is very close to internal storage. Will macOS Big Sur look or work differently on Mac models with M1 compared with Mac models that have the Intel processor?

No, macOS Big Sur will look the same on both models. The major new design and updates for apps like Safari, Messages, and Maps in Big Sur will be available for Mac models with M1 and Mac models with the Intel processor.

Only the Beginning……..

M1 powers the new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and the 24” iMac. They join the rest of the Mac product line to form the strongest Mac lineup ever.

This is the beginning of a transition to a new family of chips designed specifcally for the Mac. The transition to Apple silicon will take about two years to complete, and these four systems are an amazing frst step. Should I upgrade my Mac……..

• As long as your computer performs well for what you do, keep it and use it until it doesn’t. • When the time comes, plan on a Mac with a Apple Silicon chip. In about 12 months, all new machines will be Apple Silicon • If you need a new machine today, and Apple has not transitioned that model to Apple Silicon (iMac 27”, MacBook Pro 16”. Or Mac Pro) , try to hold off for the new machines. • But… if you use an application on your Mac that does not run on Apple Silicon, you might want to purchase a higher end Intel Mac NOW.