MAC TO THE FUTURE
APPLE SILICON HAS changed the game. It’s not Apple’s first big platform change — while it seems silly to include the 6502, the Mac has seen 68000, PowerPC and X86 chips before the M1 — but it is the most significant in, if not the Mac’s lifespan, at least a generation. The ARM64–based Apple silicon is a more flexible and more versatile system–on–a–chip (SoC) processor and, crucially, it’s Apple designed…
If there’s one thing Apple treasures above all else, it’s control over its own platforms. Apple silicon, starting with the M1 chip, gives the company precisely that — an almost entirely closed shop.
The MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac mini, and most recently, the iMac (p38) have gone the route of the M1. The rumour mill suggests the Mac Pro (already behind M1
