If anyone care to say how well Shadow of the Tomb Raider runs on current Macbooks, it would be an interesting comparison. Because if they can emulate x86 apps THAT WELL, imagine the Native performance
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Apple Transitioning Macs to Custom Chips With 'Incredible' Performance Starting Later This Year
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If anyone care to say how well Shadow of the Tomb Raider runs on current Macbooks, it would be an interesting comparison. Because if they can emulate x86 apps THAT WELL, imagine the Native performance
Do you know of a version on Windows that will run on the new Apple chips?
With VM still there. There's no reason it can not be done in macOS 11 on ARM.
Because there are so many users on these forums that just don’t grasp the fact that computers can be built using CPUs other than Intel and AMD, and they’re freaking out bad. They missed having a PowerPC Mac and seem to foRget Apple built computers all by their lonesome before they ever embraced Intel. Jeez, some of these reactions suggest that aliens have arrived on the planet.
How long did they keep Rosetta 1 around? Certainly not very long. Apple track record indicates they will try to close out compatibility as soon as possible.
Another interesting question: couldn’t they just port MacOS to my Current iPad Pro then? A true tablet Mac would be sweet.
Full circle for me, it’ll be great to have ARM back in my desktop.
(ex Acorn Archimedes and RiscPC owner)
(ex Acorn Archimedes and RiscPC owner)
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I've heard of an ARM version of Windows 10 which may run, but gaming might be another matter
At least my wife doesn't care. She buys a Mac and has never heard of Intel or ARM. But what about the people who have to pay attention to performance and long-term software support?
Looks to be a smoother transition compare to PowerPC->Intel.
This is huge. Apple have the resources to really push the ARM architecture as far as it’ll go. I expect we’re going to see some real beasts.
If you’ve been hearing all the hype about the PS5, and how Sony built a custom IO and decompressor hardware to load between 9-22Gb/s of data entirely without touching the CPU - that is the kind of engineering that is now possible on the Mac.
They have left the PC architecture behind and embraced this new world of heterogenous processors with lots of specialised units for accelerating certain tasks (like Machine Learning). Now Apple finally have a platform that demands high performance, running on their custom chips - were going to see all kinds of crazy performance that regular PCs won’t be able to match.
If you’ve been hearing all the hype about the PS5, and how Sony built a custom IO and decompressor hardware to load between 9-22Gb/s of data entirely without touching the CPU - that is the kind of engineering that is now possible on the Mac.
They have left the PC architecture behind and embraced this new world of heterogenous processors with lots of specialised units for accelerating certain tasks (like Machine Learning). Now Apple finally have a platform that demands high performance, running on their custom chips - were going to see all kinds of crazy performance that regular PCs won’t be able to match.
Hehe, it was exactly my first question... My bet is, though, Windows 10 for ARM will become compatible one day. If not Apple, if not Microsoft, then the community will make it happen (I know what I'm talking about, as for years I've been among the people working on better drivers and improvements for Boot Camp, such as Trackpad++ drivers, etc.). In fact, 'The Boot Campers' community is tens of millions of people worldwide. Huge one, actually.
I'd bet money they will.The new era of Mac!
I wonder if people will look back on this thread in 10 years like the iPod and iPhone threads
And that was running on an A12Z, which is just a 2018 iPad A12X with one additional GPU core. Two generations old.
Everybody who's crying about "oh my new intel mac is worthless now" CLEARLY did NOT watch the keynote, cause Tim Apple said: "We are going to support Intel Macs for YEARS TO COME and even going to release new Intel Macs this year, before releasing our first hardware with Apple Silicon later this year"
So STOP posting FAKE NEWS and start posting FACTS. I'm sick and tired of these whining "Apple is doomed" people here: The iPod was stupid, the iPhone was flawed, nobody would want an iPad and yet Apple is worth >1 TRILLION dollars and continues to kicks every competitors A** with their products.
So please STOP with your negativity.
So STOP posting FAKE NEWS and start posting FACTS. I'm sick and tired of these whining "Apple is doomed" people here: The iPod was stupid, the iPhone was flawed, nobody would want an iPad and yet Apple is worth >1 TRILLION dollars and continues to kicks every competitors A** with their products.
So please STOP with your negativity.
macbook is dead to me, i dont want an enlarged ipad
relax... A12Z Bionic is the processor for the Development Kit.Apple doesn't want to show in advance the new silicon. The learned after what...
I think you and I have a very different definition of what is a standard pal.
Near-term business, not all of us will have transitioned our software to Apple Z silicon right away.