Our Cheat Sheet on Todays Apple Silicon & New Mac Reveal

Here’s our regular cheat sheet, breaking down tonights presentation of the first of the new generation of Macs powered by Apple silicon.

Hardware

• Apple M1 SoC
• 5 nanometer, 16 billion transistors
• 8-Core CPU,
• 4 x high performance cores, 4 x high efficiency cores
• “Worlds fastest CPU core”
• “Worlds best performance per watt” (3x best previous)
• Up to 8-cores in GPU
• “Worlds fastest integrated graphics”
• 16-Core Neural Engine
• Includes Secure Enclave
• Unified Memory Architecture

Software

• macOS Big Sur designed for Apple Silicon
• “Almost 2x more responsive”
• “Quiet performance & Better Battery Life”
• Logic Pro – run up to 3x more instruments and plugins
• Universal App (for Intel & Apple CPUs)
• Lightroom due next month
• Rosetta2
• Run iOS Apps on Mac
• Big Sur released next Thursday

New 13″ MacBook Air

• New 13″ MacBook Air with M1
• Up to 3.5x faster than previous gen
• Up to 5x faster graphic performance
• Edit multiple streams of 4k ProRes video
• Up to 9x faster on Machine Learning tasks
• SSD up to 2x faster
• Fan-less, Silent design
• Touch ID, WiFi 6, Improved Camera
• Up to 18 hours of video playback (6 hours more than previous)
• From £999, Available from next week (order today)

New 13″ MacBook Pro

• New 13″ MacBook Pro with M1
• Up to 2.8x faster performance
• Up to 5x faster graphics
• Playback 8K ProRes Video
• Up to 11x faster on Machine Learning tasks
• “Active cooling system”
• Up to 20 hours of video playback (10 hours more than previous)
• Longest Battery Life Ever in a Mac
• Improved microphone array
• Touch ID, WiFi 6, Improved Camera
• USB-C Ports support Thunderbolt & USB4
• From £1,299, Available from next week (order today)

New Mac mini

• New Mac mini with M1
• Up to 3x faster than previous quad core
• 6x faster graphic performance
• Up to 15x faster on Machine Learning tasks
• USB-C Ports support Thunderbolt & USB4
• From £699 ($100 lower than before), Available from next week (order today)

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