So... will Homebrew work on it?
With a few hiccups, but it's coming along nicely.
Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
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#102The mini... such a great surprise and so welcome. It doesn't have internal expandability, but otherwise, it looks like a fantastic affordable desktop option.
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#103The onboard graphics performance seems to be impressive (1050Ti - 1060 range). I wonder if Valve and Epic will start compiling games for ARM. This MacBook could be my first gaming laptop, who would have thought
Epic precisely might not.
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#104Funnily enough, in the Macbook Pro section of the presentation:
"Developers can compile up to 4x code"
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#105These macs will increase apples desktop/laptop userbase by a huge margin. I expect a lot over converts within 2 years.
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#106Will existing programs run on this?
Yes, they have an Intel emulator (Rosetta I think they called it) and are pushing developers to produce "universal apps".
Here’s more details on Rosetta: https://www.theverge.com/21304182/apple-arm-mac-rosetta-2-em...
It actually depends on the app and what it’s doing. For example they said photoshop wouldn’t be available on it until early 2021.
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#107Max 16GB of RAM on these new machines is really not that great to be honest. The mini supported up to 64GB before.
I agree, i was going to order one but 16GB is not enough for me. I guess i'll wait until 32 is available.
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#109Any ideas how virtualization works? Can I run Windows VM?
Unlikely, or very slowly, because Windows x86 would need CPU emulation.
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#110So, all of these new Macs have the same SOC across the board? Or will there be slight differences like the Macbook pro will have a higher-binned soc or maybe the Mac mini and Macbook air will have fewer graphics core?
If you look on the order page they're all described the same but the Air has different option on the GPU side of the chip, 7 vs 8 cores.
It sounds like that is possibly the only binning they did, where one GPU core is disabled? Perhaps the 13" ones can run faster & more efficiently or something but they're not saying that.