Will we get more M1 Macs in 2021?
Now that Apple has started to release M1 Macs, we’re hungry for more
IN 2020 APPLE INTRODUCED ITS FIRST ARM-BASED SYSTEM ON A CHIP DESIGNED BY APPLE FOR ITS
BRAND NEW MACBOOK AIR, MAC MINI AND MACBOOK PRO 13-INCH.
There are rumours that Apple will refresh more of its range in 2021, including the iMac and other sizes of MacBook Pro, so we thought we’d take a moment to look at what makes these M1 Macs so special.
Apple’s new M1 Macs introduced not only a new kind of Mac processor but also a new kind of memory. Apple calls it Unified Memory Architecture (UMA), and it’s one of the reasons M1 Macs are so incredibly fast. Since the earliest PCs, the core of the system has been modular. You have a processor at the centre, and it sends data to and from system memory and to the graphics card. In recent years, third-party graphics cards have effectively become mini-computers in their own right, with ever faster GPUs and bigger memory, and often price tags to match. For example, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 has 24GB of 19,500MHz GDDR6X memory and a price tag of around £1,800.