Apple Transitioning Macs to Custom Chips With 'Incredible' Performance Starting Later This Year

[Kastellen]

I loathe you so, so much. It’s literally a 14” Max and it arrives in mid December. ?

I was hoping that comment would be forgotten. There are a lot of reasons that I changed my mind, but the biggest one is that bootcamp has no future. Windows 10 has three years of support left and you can’t run Windows 11 in bootcamp without hacks. So I’m left with a virtual machine as the supported option, and Windows on ARM is WAY better than I thought it’d be.

Combine that with the 16” Macbooks overheating when you attach a monitor, the offer of $1500 I got from Apple for a trade in on my two year old computer, and being blown away by the battery life I got on the Macbook Air I got my mom, and I was sold.

I actually heard on the Upgrade podcast this week that Boot Camp may not be as dead as we thought. Turns out Microsoft can’t do any official support for Windows on Apple Silicon because of a (soon to expire) agreement with Qualcomm to only ship Windows for ARM for devices using Qualcomm’s ARM processors. This was from some insider information, and I’d recommend listening to that podcast (the 11/29/21 edition) for the details, such as they are, but it was indicated that we might yet get Boot Camp back once Microsoft could officially support (and presumably develop for) Apple Silicon. Fingers crossed.