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First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Late 2020 or Early 2021

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Re: First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Late 2020 or Early 2021

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Post by cable2600 »

kevsim wrote: post #3

Possibly stupid question - does Apple switching to ARM mean the death of Bootcamp?

Possible so, unless Apple makes the ARM chip run Intel code. Windows is overrated now and only Windows 10 matters at this point in time.

For $150 you can buy a cheap Intel based PC laptop with Windows 10 on it.

I think Bootcamp might work for ARM based Linux and the ARM version of Windows 10. At least Raspberry PIs that are ARM based can run those.

Re: First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Late 2020 or Early 2021

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Post by vegetablepotpie »

Often when Apple shifts the rest of the industry follows within 5 years (touch screen smart phones, ultrabooks, high DPI displays). Although Apple has done architecture shifts before with no impact to the rest of the industry (68k -> PPC -> Intel), I wonder if this will be different.

I read in another thread that volume is what propelled x86s popularity. Intel’s difficulty with 10nm has created an opening for other fabs and other architectures to catch up. If ARM can be shown to work as a desktop processor, why wouldn’t HP, Dell, Asus and the rest make ARM laptops?

Re: First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Late 2020 or Early 2021

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Post by ceo_tim_crook »

vegetablepotpie wrote: post #6

Often when Apple shifts the rest of the industry follows within 5 years (touch screen smart phones, ultrabooks, high DPI displays). Although Apple has done architecture shifts before with no impact to the rest of the industry (68k -> PPC -> Intel), I wonder if this will be different. I read in another thread that volume is what propelled x86s popularity. Intel’s difficulty with 10nm has created an opening for other f…

It's nice to see Apple following Microsoft's lead hopefully they have something as nice as the Surface Pro X to put on display

Re: First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Late 2020 or Early 2021

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Post by legulere »

vegetablepotpie wrote: post #6

Often when Apple shifts the rest of the industry follows within 5 years (touch screen smart phones, ultrabooks, high DPI displays). Although Apple has done architecture shifts before with no impact to the rest of the industry (68k -> PPC -> Intel), I wonder if this will be different. I read in another thread that volume is what propelled x86s popularity. Intel’s difficulty with 10nm has created an opening for other f…

Because almost nothing runs on arm64 windows. Even visual studio code was just recently ported.

Also other companies don’t have access to apple’s arm chips with great single core performance.

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