If Only We Knew What Apple Silicon Really Meant
Dealing with an entirely new kind of buyer’s remorse unique to Apple users…
Hindsight is always 20–20, or so they say, and when it comes to Apple Silicon, I feel compelled to agree. Three generations of M-series SOCs have come and gone. The impatient ones out there are already dreaming of M4 in all its iterations and variants, while the latecomers are just discovering M1 in all its humble glory thanks to an unusual suspect — Walmart — selling M1 MacBook Airs at $699 (occasionally $650), considerably cheaper than the 11” Intel MacBook Air used to be. It took us all roughly four years to truly understand what really happened when the Cupertino giant first unveiled its ARM-based SOC. It wasn’t just the end of Intel processors in Macs, or the unexpected beginning of ARM in mainstream — dare I say luxury designer — computing. It was the moment that marked the end of bad personal computers.
The concept of a “bad personal computer” is purposely vague and poorly defined because over the years we have learnt, our grandparents included, that “bad” can mean countless things ranging from slow to lack of ports, inability to run a certain software, perform a specific task or — believe it or not — fit into the right handbag.
”Bad” is just another word for “unfit…
