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Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

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Re: Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

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Post by jdhn »

nouveaux wrote: post #5
jdhn wrote: post #2

I was interested by the GPU that was mentioned in the slide, does this mean that Apple is thinking that they have the expertise to take on Nvidia and AMD in that space?

Whether or not they think that or they can, they have been developing GPUs for iOS devices. It'll be interesting to see what they do for their desktops.

I agree. I know they're currently using AMD GPUs, but how much longer will they keep using AMD if they believe that their own in house chips can do a better job? Also, I'm curious as to whether they would try to sell their GPUs (iGPU?) to gamers who traditionally don't stay within the Mac ecosystem at all. Having a 3rd major player in the GPU space would be wild.

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Post by nouveaux »

First mac with Apple chip by the end of the year.

Also Apple is committing to a long term pipeline of Intel chips. This makes sense since so many apps will take years to transition. At the same time, they're willing to put their own chips side by side with Intel and they believe people will voluntarily switch. I'm looking forward to the benchmarks.

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Post by eyesee »

balls187 wrote: post #16
SloopJon wrote: post #14

Besides 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 was stated the demo hardware is the DTK (available this week), which includes an A12Z processor from the latest iPad Pro coupled with 16 GB RAM.

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Post by Mindwipe »

jccalhoun wrote: post #19

Tim Cook just said they have new intel macs in the pipeline. Those will go over like a lead balloon.

The last Macs that will support Boot Camp will be the best selling Macs for years.

Much like the 2015 Macbook Pro I expect you'll be able sell it for more than you paid for it years later.

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Post by tjr »

jccalhoun wrote: post #19

Tim Cook just said they have new intel macs in the pipeline. Those will go over like a lead balloon.

And I reckon those of us who just bought a shiny new Intel Mac in the past few months might be questioning our decision. Should have held on to that 2010 MBP one more year?

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Post by chadlavi »

ericzawo wrote: post #8

I really wonder if this will result in the Mac-ification of iPad. Would love to finally run a MacOS environment on a tablet.

yeah all the UI updates this year seem to be on the theme of stitching up the gaps between macOS and iPadOS.

I'm guessing that when the "two year" transition to all-ARM arch on the mac is complete, they'll merge them.

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Post by coldpie »

bdz wrote: post #3

edit: why the downvotes? legit curious I'm curious about the future, especially games, if they want to take on consoles. PS4 and XboxOne are 7 years old and while the next gen looks really good Apple can refresh the productline much quicker (on the other hand it's a good question if people really would want to buy a new console say every year because Apple sure will be aggressive pushing out new models much more freq…

macOS's gaming story has always been pretty abysmal. They nuked a ton of games when they dropped 32-bit support, and they refuse to implement the graphics API that the gaming industry is standardizing around. I don't foresee any improvements in Mac gaming from this announcement.
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