A "do not buy" for the entire Mac range in the buyers guide for now then! 😄
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Apple Transitioning Macs to Custom Chips With 'Incredible' Performance Starting Later This Year
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Big difference between 2 and 8 years. My MBP retina and Mac mini from 2012 are running 10.15 great. I don't think any of the Intel machines today will have that longevity. Even if MacOS still supports the Intel machines in 5 years, the 3rd party devs will not be optimizing their latest software on Intel hardware anymore(or put as much effort into it). Really feel sorry for the chaps who dropped $10K+ on their latest Mac Pro setups...
Well, it is 2020. After the zombie plague, murder hornets, dystopian police/rioting, and massive cell phone outages, an alien arrival could well be the next event in Jumanji 2020.
I’m really looking forward to work with the new Macs. Hope hurry up and release a pro machine soon. The keyboard on may 2018 MacBook Pro is killing me and the damn thing gets hot and loud. I need more power with less noise.
It is a smart move if they really are able to produce chips that are much faster than Intel or even AMD. It’s a huge advantage.
It is a smart move if they really are able to produce chips that are much faster than Intel or even AMD. It’s a huge advantage.
You mean the part where they launch a terminal in Debian and it clearly says: Mac OS Intel ?
Apple typically support machines for around 5 years, 7 years for some machines. I wouldn't worry about it too much because at the end of the day there will be a new MBP 13" next year that will be faster/better than the one you just bought. In 5 years when your machine is no longer supported you'll probably want to upgrade anyway.
He also said they were designing a range of processors. Don't worry, they are going to have performance-biased processors for those applications the same way every chip company does. And by the way, that tiny little phone CPU already kicks the ass of Intel laptop chips in single-core performance (we haven't even seen this year's chip yet) and is getting close in multicore. When Apple specially designs chips for larger enclosures they are going to leave your Intel Mac chips in the dust.
But will it as well run Windows (for ARM) via Boot Camp? I hope so, as Windows 10 for ARM processors does exist already. This entire decade I've been developing drivers and tools for Boot Camp (Trackpad++ drivers, for example). So I hope Boot Camp will not be gone...
The big difference with Apple-silicon is that you would lack the graphics drivers under Windows - at least for any integrated graphics. That would require Apple to write Windows graphics drivers which I don't think will happen..
GeForce Now will be shuttered inside of a year. They’re losing publishers left and right.
They were almost certainly virtualizing Linux for ARM, not Linux for x86. That doesn't get you any closer to running Windows in a VM on ARM hardware.
I imagine this is just how it presents itself while it’s emulating
Since Apple declared this in 2018? https://bgr.com/2018/11/01/ipad-pro-vs-xbox-one-s-specs-games-apple/
Let the guinea pigs have at it. I can see a lack of high quality desktop applications missing on ARM Macs for many years to come. Mac OS is already a redheaded step child next to Windows, and now moving to ARM will ensure there won’t be a ported Mac version of Windows applications.
There isn’t anyone making powerful ARM CPUs for Windows either. Apple is pretty much alone in this fight. Unlike iOS, Mac devices don’t have the same commanding power to dictate the entire industry. Software availability outside of garbage mobile apps is going to be scarce!
There isn’t anyone making powerful ARM CPUs for Windows either. Apple is pretty much alone in this fight. Unlike iOS, Mac devices don’t have the same commanding power to dictate the entire industry. Software availability outside of garbage mobile apps is going to be scarce!
I guess that this was inevitable. Apple can make more profit from machines whilst keeping the performance relatively the same at the low end. What will be very interesting will be the high end level GPUs. It is one thing to roll out a custom version of an ARM chip. Quite another to try to replicate a Vega etc for graphic designers.
I’m thinking massive asteroid first, then the aliens come in and eat the rest of us before conquering the planet for their own purposes.
You guys will be fine - Us who were in the PowerPC to Intel transition feared the same thing, but survived
With the PPC-X86 they went from custom to industry standard. Now they are going back to custom and 15% of the computer market back down to 2%.
That was the request headers from Safari -- not the version of Debian.
That is most likely because they kept the Safari request headers to still say Intel until this release -- so they could continue to test it over the last year and no webserver admins could see this version.
So what? It's still an emulated game. I remember emulating ppc games on intel when I got the first intel mac pro, they did not run this good. And this is on a 2 year old iPad chip.
Kind of gutted - spent over $3K (Canadian) on my 2019 iMac - guess I should have waited. Wonder how long they'll support any Intel Mac once they complete the switchover?
It does not. If it would, they would've shown more relevant infos and of course hard facts aka numbers.
They were demonstrating an emulated Intel VM.