Apple’s base Mac Mini, the most affordable way to buy into MacOS, starts at just $699, and it delivers performance that’s more in line with a Windows desktop priced above $1,000. Apple users have complained for years that Intel-powered Macs run too hot, are too loud, and suffer degraded performance in demanding workloads.Īpple’s M1 chip fixes all of those problems, and it does so at a surprisingly low price.
The Mac, and the MacBook line in particular, was struggling to make the best of Intel’s hardware. You can buy an M1-powered Mac with confidence that your existing software will work and, more importantly, you don't need any special knowledge to make it work. Software running through Rosetta2 launches just like any other application. Apple doesn’t flag software that hasn’t been updated for the M1 chip, so there’s no way to know unless you go digging. It’s so seamless, in fact, that you almost certainly won’t notice anything has changed.