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Apple already has several ARM powered laptops drifting around internally

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Re: Apple already has several ARM powered laptops drifting around internally

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Post by bsharitt »

Makes sense. Allegedly they had pretty much every version OS X after Rhapsody continuing to run on x86 in some capacity until the x86 version of OS X finally came out. Keeping an ARM version around seems like a no brainer.

I suspect this isn't being held in case the Mac market falls apart, but in case the iPad market starts losing to Surface and friends.

Re: Apple already has several ARM powered laptops drifting around internally

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Post by kstrauser »

Fascinating, but take it with a grain of salt. One anonymous poster didn't just violate, but shredded and used as hamster mulch, their NDA to report iPad-with-a-keyboard? It's plausible, but I think most of us here could have written that comment as a speculative exercise.

Re: Apple already has several ARM powered laptops drifting around internally

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Post by Analemma_ »

kstrauser wrote: post #3

Fascinating, but take it with a grain of salt. One anonymous poster didn't just violate, but shredded and used as hamster mulch, their NDA to report iPad-with-a-keyboard? It's plausible, but I think most of us here could have written that comment as a speculative exercise.

That AC could be both right and wrong. He could be totally right about the existence of those prototypes, and I bet it's true (it'd be more surprising if Apple didn't have prototype ARM laptops floating around). But it doesn't mean he knows anything about actual plans to get these out the door. There are HUGE barriers to that happening at the moment, the cost/benefit ratio is extremely high. It sounds to me like this AC is correctly reporting the facts but incorrectly extrapolating his own story out of it.

Re: Apple already has several ARM powered laptops drifting around internally

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Post by watmough »

bsharitt wrote: post #2

Makes sense. Allegedly they had pretty much every version OS X after Rhapsody continuing to run on x86 in some capacity until the x86 version of OS X finally came out. Keeping an ARM version around seems like a no brainer. I suspect this isn't being held in case the Mac market falls apart, but in case the iPad market starts losing to Surface and friends.

The worst part of an iPAD is carrying it around.

Give me a foldable iPad that still has screen in both halves, but that is usable in landscape, and I will buy.

Appropriate haptics could make it work like a tiny laptop in portrait, but like a regular all-screen iPad in landscape.

Re: Apple already has several ARM powered laptops drifting around internally

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Post by ColanR »

Analemma_ wrote: post #4
kstrauser wrote: post #3

Fascinating, but take it with a grain of salt. One anonymous poster didn't just violate, but shredded and used as hamster mulch, their NDA to report iPad-with-a-keyboard? It's plausible, but I think most of us here could have written that comment as a speculative exercise.

That AC could be both right and wrong. He could be totally right about the existence of those prototypes, and I bet it's true (it'd be more surprising if Apple didn't have prototype ARM laptops floating around). But it doesn't mean he knows anything about actual plans to get these out the door. There are HUGE barriers to that happening at the moment, the cost/benefit ratio is extremely high. It sounds to me like this…

> From what I was told, there's a huge push to get this stuff out the door as soon as they think the market will accept it.

Looks like a) he's not extrapolating anything, and b) the AC knew those huuuuge barriers existed when he wrote his post.

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