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Six months on: the state of M1 software

It’s now been six months since Apple shook up the personal computing world with its own processors. The launch of the M1-powered MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini was a dramatic moment for the company because it marked the transition away from Intel’s chip architecture and on to silicon of Apple’s own design, based on the ARM chipset.

In other words: all existing software written for the Mac will no longer run natively on any

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