Ok, absolutely it is understood that iOS and iPadOS are locked down in the sense that it is hard to install any kind of software that doesn’t come from the App Store. That’s quite clearly not what I wrote at all. But what about yesterday gave you the impression that macOS Big Sur contains any of those kinds of limitations? Quite the opposite IMO? They showed off 3rd party apps that are not on the Mac App Store at all and tools for running non-Mac OS’s, etc.?
Why do you say "engineering" instead of engineering? Do you imply engineering becomes "engineering" when they don't support MacOS or what?
"Whatever that is?" If you don't know what part of freedom you lose in Android and iOS, there's no point in me answering this question.
Well, as I said, in Apple, aesthetics follows function (which is very good, except when you see iOS aesthetics, because it means you'll be getting iOS functionality --Apple is very sincere in this point). If you don't believe it, you can remember that they are introducing nagging for MacOS updates recently. Anyway, if you like this thing, then you probably love iOS, which together with Android are for me the worst products in Earth at this time and to be avoided at all costs, so there's no point in argument things that we don't agree with from the beginning...
Absolutely - I mean good ol’ Phil was on stage at the release of the A7 touting the 64-bit desktop class CPU that it was. They were already pretty much going for it then! This has been a long time coming.
Exactly - whether you are super excited, super terrified, super happy or super angry, this is by far the most exciting time in over a decade to be an Apple enthusiast (whether that means a supporting enthusiast or a curmudgeon enthusiast for you in particular 🤣)
If you are a developer, and probably fill out a form telling Apple why you need one, you can rent a MacMini with ARM processor for a year for $500.
The current MacMini comes with either quad core or six core Intel processors, the A12Z is basically the current iPad. I expect it to slightly beat the quad core, and come reasonably close to the six core MacMini, but not trounce it.
My guess would be that technically yes, Apple Silicon will be aarch64 compatible in the sense that they would be able to execute all ARM ISA instructions used. But probably, most likely, not the other way around as I suspect Apple is using their own custom extended instruction sets for their custom designed chips.
Not at all. ARM will be it. There will probably not even a choice, except for Macs costing $5,000 and more.
They clearly said the were running an Intel Linux distro in a VM, using Rosetta to translate code on the fly.
A lot of the code for a game like Tomb Raider will be calls to the Metal graphics library, and that code will either run on the graphics hardware, or it is OS code that runs native, in that case ARM. And the iPad chips are bloody fast.
It seems there are plenty of people here in tears because their Mac is suddenly obsolete, so you should be able to get one on eBay really cheap. (No, that's me being sarcastic). Wait until you need a new Mac.
This seems overly optimistic. Perhaps in specific circumstances with specific tasks. But overall? I'm skeptical.
They did with the PowerPC -> Intel presentation. That is what I was pointing out. That 2005 keynote they explained performance per watt, and then gave the slide comparing the two (Projected mid 2006). This time they did the same, except they never said what they expected that improvement to be. They set it up, but didn't give us the punchline. In a recent AMD presentation linked on anandtech AMD also gave more specifics on Relative Perf-Per-Watt.
Microsoft have an ARM based machine. They are also working with Apple on Office. What’s to say Microsoft aren’t already completely invested in the switch?
