Welcome to the Apple Insider Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Robles. And this is the recap episode covering Apple's one more thing event that happened today, Tuesday, November 10th.

Apple started the event by announcing the new chip that's going in their Apple Silicon based max and they are calling it the M1 chip.

The M1 chip is based on that five nanometer process that we've also seen in the A14 chip that went in the iPhone 12 and the new iPad Air.

This new system on a chip combines all the CPU, GPU, RAM, the IO, all in this one chip, the M1. Apple is saying it has 16 billion transistors and the CPU is made up of four high performance cores and four high efficiency cores.

So it's an 8 core CPU inside the M1 chip. The GPU on this chip is also now integrated. There's no discrete graphics in these first Apple Silicon max and the GPU is an 8 core GPU built into the M1 chip.

Apple is claiming it's the world's fastest integrated graphics and it also has a 16 core neural engine in addition to the GPU.

And again, they're just saying that this is a super fast chip, the fastest that you will see faster than any PC laptop you can find on the market now.

There is a unified memory architecture. So that means is before if you would have a discrete graphics card or you would have a RAM dedicated for the graphics.

Now all that memory is unified or integrated. So when you get the 8 gigabytes of RAM or the 16 gigabytes of RAM in these new Apple Silicon max, that RAM is used both for the CPU and GPU tasks together.

And so the M1 will intelligently decide where to allocate the RAM as you're performing tasks. Apple says it's also the most advanced security built into any chip of any computer.

Craig Friedrichi spent a moment talking about the changes in macOS Big Sur coming with the M1 chip like universal apps where you can have one download from the Mac app store or from a software developer's own website.

And in that one download it would have code to run both on an Intel chip and an Apple Silicon natively Omni group was actually featured along with cable sass from panic talking about they're making their apps to be universal.

They also talked about the Rosetta 2 technology will allow you to run apps that haven't been updated for Apple Silicon yet. You'll still be able to run those apps before they're updated on your Apple Silicon based Mac.

And as they announced before you can actually run iPad and iPhone apps right on your Mac.

So then we come to the actual hardware announcements they announced three new Macs that are Apple Silicon based and there's some differences as far as can you still get the Intel versions what's any hardware differences.

So the first one they announced is the brand new MacBook Air with the M1 chip. It's three and a half times faster than the previous MacBook Air with five times faster graphic performance all thanks to that M1 chip.

Now what's notable about this MacBook Air is there is no fan no fan for any kind of cooling in this MacBook Air so you know will always be silent much like an iPad pro or iPad would be because there's no fan.

They're claiming 15 hours of web browsing 18 hours of video playback which is six more than the previous MacBook Air and they're bringing P3 wide color gamut to the display.

Notably there is still only touch ID in any of the Macs that they announced today there is no face ID coming to any Macs that they announced.

Now this new MacBook Air starts at just 999 so a thousand bucks for education it's 899. Now that 999 price point comes with eight gigs of RAM and a 256 gig SSD.

You can upgrade that to 16 gigs of RAM and two terabyte SSD but that will cost you 2049 dollars to upgrade the MacBook Air as far as possible.

That doesn't include Apple care and one more notable thing about the MacBook Air you cannot get the Intel version anymore if you go to the Apple store right now you cannot buy a new MacBook Air with an Intel chip and that's different than the next two Macs that were announced.

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