Now will Qualcomm feel a little more competition or not? There chips are slow in mobiles and they are slow in PCs, compared to Apple's processors.
Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
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#22It's interesting that their official virtualization support (in the demo) is Parallels.
Curious that they said nothing about virtualizing Windows. That can’t be a mistake or oversight. Odd.
It may be to avoid appearing to be misleading. They'll almost certainly be able to virtualize ARM-based Windows, but that's not what normal users are looking for when they want to virtualize Windows.
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#23“We've been down this road before”
Yes, and then you ‘upgraded’ the OS and gratuitously stopped running older software. My final Mac Pro — yes, I was a buyer of Mac Pro grade hardware — still runs 10.6.8 for that reason.
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#26MacMini with an A12 chip. Available now as a part of a developer kit. Will be fun to see what that can do.
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#27Besides native apps from Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe (Universal 2), the demo included Maya and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Rosetta 2), and Parallels Desktop (unspecified virtualization improvements). I couldn't tell if the guest O/S was Debian for x84-64 or Aarch64.
I was curious about the hardware they used for the demo.
One of the About This Mac dialogs showed an A12Z with 16 GB, which is consistent with the developer transition kit, basically an iPad Pro in a Mac mini case: A12Z, 16 GB, 512 GB SSD.
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#28Besides native apps from Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe (Universal 2), the demo included Maya and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Rosetta 2), and Parallels Desktop (unspecified virtualization improvements). I couldn't tell if the guest O/S was Debian for x84-64 or Aarch64.
I was curious about the hardware they used for the demo.
It said A12Z. Mac Minis with A12 available next week to devs.
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#29I was seriously considering upgrading my 2012 MacBook to the new 16" model soon, but now I wonder what kind of longevity or support I can expect from that hardware...
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#30This is a demo so take with huge grain of salt, but the x86 performance looks solid... better than I expected considering it's based on an iPad CPU.
IDK, "look how good our CPU support is by running a several year old GPU limited game" fell a bit flat for me.