2021 MacBook Pros: Back to Form

With the release of the new 2021 MacBook Pro line, Apple has done away with many of the unpopular hardware decisions that they’ve made over the past half-decade.

At the end of 2020, Apple unveiled their in-house system-on-a-chip(SoC), the M1, that took the world by storm; easily outperforming Intel and AMD CPUs in the same range. The M1 covered many of the problems that Apple has been facing with Intel chips; most prominently their higher power consumption and heat output. With the M1, Apple designed the SoC around the more efficient ARM architecture, dropping power usage and significantly increasing battery life. They also managed to squeeze more power out of these chips, easily outclassing Intel or Windows counterparts.