This made for some real advances for Apple in the marketplace, plus, it was great for developers. This was great since it made it easy to move applications back and forth between PC and Mac, which was harder on previous generations which used the PowerPC architecture Apple used the 14 years before that. We got our hands on a 13' MacBook Pro with the new M1 chip to see if it's something filmmakers should consider, or if it's better to hold off.īefore we dig into the particulars, we should spend some time going over what makes these Mac different from previous versions.įor the last 14 years, Apple has built their computers around Intel architecture.

The new chip is found in the Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air, which are already shipping. The trillion-dollar tech company has moved on from Intel and switched over to its own Apple Silicon, built on ARM architecture. Apple has, yet again, made a major change in computer hardware.