Apple refreshed the 13-inch MacBook Pro in November 2020, adding an Apple-designed “M1” Arm-based chip to replace the prior Intel chips. M1 chips bring significant speed and efficiency improvements. The M1 MacBook Pro is being sold alongside the higher-end M1 Pro and M1 Max 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, and it is considered the entry-level model in the MacBook Pro lineup.
The M1 chip is Apple’s first System on a Chip for Mac that integrates the CPU, GPU, RAM, and more all together. The M1 has an 8-core CPU with four high-efficiency cores and four high-performance cores along with an integrated GPU that has 8 cores. Compared to the prior-generation MacBook Pro models, the new M1 MacBook Pro’s CPU is up to 2.8x faster and the GPU is up to 5x faster.
Machine learning tasks that use the Neural Engine are up to 11x faster, making the MacBook Pro quicker at ML-based features like face recognition and object detection. With a new storage controller, SSD is up to 2x faster, with the…