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00:00Apple Silicon is a little confusing, so here's your cheat sheet.
00:02So there have been four generations of chips so far, and there are multiple different performance
00:06tiers.
00:07So the base chip, M4, is the most recent one.
00:10That's in things like the iPad, the MacBook Air, the Mac Mini, and the iMac.
00:13Then you move up to the Pro tier, which is a physically larger chip.
00:16So there are more CPU and GPU cores, more memory bandwidth.
00:20The rule is if you don't know why you need it, you probably don't need it.
00:22But this is in things like Mac Mini and MacBook Pro.
00:25Then you move up to the Max tier.
00:27This is an even bigger, badder chip.
00:29You guessed it.
00:30More cores, more memory.
00:31This is in things like Mac Studio and MacBook Pro.
00:33But in Mac land, Max doesn't actually mean maximum, because double it passes to the next
00:37one.
00:38That's the Ultra chip, which is literally two Maxes fused together.
00:40It's the biggest, baddest chip, and that's in things like Mac Pro and Mac Studio.
00:44And so Apple works from left to right in terms of development, and this is the direction
00:48of time.
00:49So the latest and greatest is M3 Ultra, even over M4 Max.
00:53Now it all makes sense.