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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 kemiller2002 »

jccalhoun wrote: post #19

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

What is really sad is that I don't think the majority of Apple consumers really understand what this means for the Intel macs in the long run. I fear a number of people will buy them not realizing they have a very limited lifespan.

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

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Post by simonbarker87 »

Well, that new MBP I bought 4 weeks ago and planned to keep for 5 years just got a muuuuch shorter life span if I can run iOS apps on an Arm Mac, my wife is going to be livid.

I guess this also means Catalyst’s life span is pretty short and SwiftUI will becomes the focus?

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

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Post by ogre_codes »

jccalhoun wrote: post #19

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

I wouldn't be so sure, there are a fair number of people who want a machine that will run x86 for various reasons. Windows support/ Linux support. Even considering how impressive x86 VMs looked in the demo, lots of people will prefer using intel silicon for guaranteed compatibility.

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

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Post by Mindwipe »

monocasa wrote: post #30
ogre_codes wrote: post #11

This 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.

Not even running it very well. All the graphics settings were turned down, the framerate looked choppy and it was only running in 1080p.

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

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Post by minxomat »

valuearb wrote: post #32

Docker and Linux virtualization. Fat binaries to make it easy to update Mac apps. iPhone and iPad apps. Rosetta to run Intel apps that aren’t updated. Apple is gonna knock this out if the park.

It already has. I'll Def try to get my hands on the A12Z Mac Mini. The GPU performance should be vastly better than existing Mac Mini options.

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

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Post by jdhn »

jccalhoun wrote: post #19

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

I'm in the market for a new laptop, and if I knew how long the Intel macs would be supported, I could see myself picking one up. Unfortunately, nothing was said about that so I guess I'm holding off.

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

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Post by jmull »

cmer wrote: post #12
nouveaux wrote: post #6

It'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.

That’s got to be coming, but maybe just wasn’t ready to demo today.

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

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Post by freehunter »

monocasa wrote: post #30
ogre_codes wrote: post #11

This 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.

It’s not about the game, it’s about running performance-dependent code written for x86 on an ARM chip. A lot harder to fake a stable frame rate in a game than in Photoshop.
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