BETWEEN 1997 AND 2002, Apple used the advertising slogan “think different”. Fast forward to today and that long–running campaign is a distant memory, yet the sentiment behind it is very much alive. You can see the difference when looking at how Apple has set modern Macs apart from “normal” computers. Rather than have separate central and graphics processing units — CPU and GPU — and Random Access Memory (RAM) components, Apple silicon Macs make use of a System–on–a–Chip (SoC). And that move has made them very powerful indeed.
One of the big decisions rolled out in the creation of the cutting–edge proprietary M1 chip in 2020 was the introduction of unified memory. As well as integrating components such as the CPU,
