The MacBook Air M1 was a monumental laptop because it marked Apple move away from Intel processors to its own system on chip SoC, known as Apple Silicon. The M1 was the first Apple Silicon chip, introducing a unified memory in which the CPU and GPU share the same memory pool. It delivered significantly better performance and efficiency than the Intel chips that came before it, resulting in exceptional battery life. The MacBook Air M1 launched in November 2020, making it nearly six years old —
