When Apple Silicon’s M1 chipset debuted on the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air in 2020, it represented a generational jump in desk-bound computing. The move away from Intel’s x86 platform to Apple’s own ARM-based platform offered significant advantages over the Windows-based competition and older Intel MacBook laptops.Since the launch of Apple Silicon and the M1-powered MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, the Windows ecosystem has been working hard to catch up to Apple’s ARM laptops. Qualcomm’s latest chipset could be the answer needed by Microsoft and its partners.
