Exactly. M1 is a new processor design, not an iteration on previous intel Macs. It’s not just “better swap” - it’s “unified memory.” This makes much better use

Exactly. M1 is a new processor design, not an iteration on previous intel Macs. It’s not just “better swap” - it’s “unified memory.” This makes much better use of the memory available to the system. From https://www.macworld.com/article/234843/m1-macs-memory-isnt-what-it-used-to-be.html https://www.macworld.com/article/234843/m1-macs-memory-isnt-... : “The M1 processor’s memory is a single pool that’s accessible by any portion of the processor. If the system needs more memory for graphics, it can allocate that. If it needs more memory for the Neural Engine, likewise. Even better, because all the aspects of the processor can access all of the system memory, there’s no performance hit when the graphics cores need to access something that was previously being accessed by a processor core. On other systems, the data has to be copied from one portion of memory to another—but on the M1, it’s just instantly accessible.”