The results are pretty amazing. The Macbook Air now benchmarks quicker than Apple's fastest laptop even when emulating Intel-based apps. The scores for native performance are extraordinarily good. Everyone else must be taking note of this and hopefully, Microsoft will commit more to ARM now as it's hard not to conclude that this is where the consumer computer market is going.
In addition to the huge performance improvements, the battery life of the laptops has nearly doubled as well.
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It's interesting that for the time being some of the new M-series models will continue to have an Intel equivalent also for sale. Apple seems to see this as a very long-term transition, or perhaps they still need to persuade some of the software makers to get onboard.
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The Macbook Pros have now divided between a lower tier and an upper-tier for a while. The upper-tier getting a more powerful processor range and two additional ports.
It's the lower tier they've replaced with M-Series chips so I suspect they're waiting for M1X or whatever they come up with - a more powerful processer which draws more energy - before replacing both the upper tier 13" and the 16" range.