OK? it doesn't matter why. All I was saying is that a macOS user can be excused for not being familiar with the state of the art on the "intel" side of things. Someone whose focus is on Apple products might understandably have a limited perspective when it comes to what x86/amd64 offers today.
Yes it does. Apple planned its Intel Mac designs based on what
Intel was promising them, the one company that should "have been familiar with the state of the art on the "intel" side of things."
"A former Intel engineer reckons Apple decided to switch from Intel due to the unusually high number of bugs in
the chip maker's Skylake CPUs that powered Macs released between 2015 and 2017. and later "The quality assurance in Skylake was abnormally bad."
How in the name of logic is Apple's fault for Intel FUBARing things that badly? You know that things are totally FUBARed if the company who's name defines a market SNAFUs things that badly.
Ep. 7: What is Intel’s x86 Future? and
Is It Game Over for the x86 ISA and Intel? shows that x86 has problems. The later says interesting things:
"ARM is doing to x86 what PC did to everybody else in the 90s. By being an open platform with multiple chip makers you got fierce competition which will
drive prices down and boost innovation."
"It has become a truthism that ARM chips are weak. Yet in the laptop space we saw that Apple’s iPad Pro when they came ou
t beat most of their own intel based laptops on performance. That was insane as
those ARM chips cost a fraction of the intel chips used in their laptops. Not to mention they where passively cooled."
"This process will begin to work in lockstep. As more people are seeing cost savings going with ARM cloud solutions, they are also going to want to have ARM laptops to develop on."
State of the art is not Intel as both they and AMD are trying to squeeze what they can out of the x86 and related architecture.
Even AMD is touting ARM as the future for datacenters. Heck,
NVIDIA bought ARM itself. You don't do that if you think the future is x86 forever and ever.
I noticed that you didn't touch on
this point:
Based what happened with the PowerPC to Intel transition
we will be seeing new Intel Macs clear into 2023 not counting the referb which Apple sells which kicks the Intel Mac from Apple can down the road to
2026
This is all ignoring Apple's
current pattern of supporting Macs as old as
seven years ago with its new OS (Big Sur can run on some macs from 2013) which would kick Intel support down to
2030, 10 freaking years from now.
I am reminded of a commercial (forget the product) where a 18 year-old is offered an opportunity to invest in this computer two guys are building in their garage (an obvious reference to Jobs and Wozniak). He takes the money he could have invested shows off the piece of technology he used the money to buy proudly promoting it as "the future" -
an 8-tack player.
Yes, it is way different from his likely inspiration, Ronald Wayne but the message was clear - there are those who see the future and those who play it safe aka "lowest risk path (and least expensive)" and Wayne stated it was the "best decision with the information available to me
at the time" but that was when information was far more limited then it is now.
