Apple’s first-gen M1 chips have already upended our concept of laptop performance
Apple’s first M1 MacBooks are here, and the world of laptops has changed overnight. When Apple first announced that it would be transitioning its computers specifically, the MacBook Air and entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, its most popular PCs to a new and wildly different type of processor, there were plenty of reasons to be skeptical. Apple was making huge claims for battery life and performance, things that the first wave of Arm-based laptops from Qualcomm and Microsoft failed to deliver.
