APPLE SILICON
All I Want For Christmas is an M2 Mac
Too much is never enough
Poor Tim Cook. Apple released the new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini in November, three of the most revolutionary Macs since the first Intel Macs in 2006, and less than a month later fans and followers are already looking for the encore.
“The introduction of three new Macs featuring Apple’s breakthrough M1 chip represents a bold change that was years in the making, and marks a truly historic day for the Mac and for Apple,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “M1 is by far the most powerful chip we’ve ever created, and combined with Big Sur, delivers mind-blowing performance, extraordinary battery life, and access to more software and apps than ever before. We can’t wait for our customers to experience this new generation of Mac, and we have no doubt it will help them continue to change the world.”
As amazing as these M1-powered Macs are, the interest in what’s next is actually more than understandable. While the M1 SoC rewrites the rules for what’s possible in a personal computer, there are still some key limitations in this first iteration of Apple’s silicon for the Mac. The M1 tops out at 8 cores (4 efficiency cores, 4 performance cores) and 16GB of RAM, while the Macs that have yet to be updated have these maximum configurations:
