20 Macworld • January 2022

MAC

A

year ago last month the

era of Apple silicon truly

began, as the first reviews

of M1 Macs arrived,

followed shortly thereafter by M

Macs arriving in Apple Stores and in

the hands of Mac users everywhere.

We had hope that the future would

be brighter with Apple-designed

A look back – and forward – after a thrilling year of Apple silicon.

Jason Snell reports

How the first year of

Apple silicon changed

the Mac forever

processors, but that optimism was

tempered by Apple’s recent Mac

missteps. There were also a lot of

questions about a processor that

had only really seen success in

iPhones and iPads. Would there be

unexpected pitfalls of abandoning

Intel? Could Apple pull off its latest

Mac chip transition with the same skill