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One of the biggest impacts of Apple’s switch from Intel to its own M-series silicon — debuting with the M1 in the 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini — is faster, more stable, and more energy-efficient Macs and MacBooks. This is all thanks in part to the M’s unified memory architecture and system-on-a-chip design, which changed how the processors work together and how memory is allocated.
The switch to UMA also changed how to determine what configuration to choose when buying an Apple…
