Re: ARM advantage?
Indeed, in general there's little difference overall in chip design: chips with the same capabilities build with the same processes will be of a similar size, though support for x86 in hardware will still mean some overhead. But ARM still has an advantage when it comes customisation and creating discrete components on the die for codecs, encryption, etc. Apple's major advantage for apparent improvement is the return to shared memory for CPU/GPU which makes some operations much faster because nothing needs copying. This is great when it works but might also mean that you need more RAM than you thought you would.
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