The last gen Intel ones didn't have one, so I'd be very surprised if they changed that.
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Apple's Path to Arm-Based Macs Could Start With a New 12-Inch MacBook
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The last gen Intel ones didn't have one, so I'd be very surprised if they changed that.
There will be design changes.
But the purpose will be much higher performance, much more security, and longer battery life, as well as new functionality achievable by incorporating all sorts of special-function blocks on the SoC or in the MCM.
Probably the scariest rumor I've ever read
I hope is not a crap product that Steve Jobs said Apple does not sell. MacBook Air i3 cpu I'm talking to you too.
No chance this being in a pro machine or desktop. Dedicated GPUs required x86 instruction sets, so how would an ARM play with an AMD GPU?
Disappointing if emulation doesn't work well. I would have to jump back to WinPCs.
Wow, so far I haven’t seen the standard “If I can’t use boot camp, I won’t get another Mac” comment.. I’m not sure that we will see an ARM based MacBook yet, I think that Apple is pushing the iPad Pro as the portable computer. In my opinion, the iPad Pro with magic keyboard is the first ARM powered “Mac”
Doubt it. They took an absolute beating over that design flawed piece of crepe.
More likely adopting the new laptop keyboards.
Azrael.
I remain of the view that the 12” MacBook was effectively perfect as a truly portable machine. It was tiny, light, long battery life, good display, fast enough for email, internet, Office applications. If a new one comes, I’ll buy.
If I can’t use boot camp, I won’t get another Mac.
AN 12" Macbook can make sense since the intel generation were too slow, an 6 core ARM cpu with Apples Gpu, can make from the 12" macbook twice as powerful than the last intel generation,and from 10 hours battery life to reach 12-13 maybe
Apple has designed its own GPU for these things.
There were issues with the butterfly keyboard but it's still my favorite keyboard to type on. This is my opinion and experience. I know others have other opinions. Granted, I only had a MacBook for a couple years and never had any problems but I like the typing experience. I was faster and more accurate typing on it than any other keyboard in the 35+ years I've been using keyboards.
I'm not saying Apple should go back to butterfly keyboards again but if they really can solve the issues people are having, I support the move (meaning I’m not going to complain about it).
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If I don't get a jelly donut right now I'm taking my ball and going home?
This is what I’ve been saying for years. They’ll start with their thinnest, lightest laptops, which will suddenly be twice as powerful and have way better battery life. The higher end Macs have powerful 8-12 core Intel i9 processors already, they’re doing great. It’s the thin and light Macs that are held back by Intel.
Smart. I upgraded and kind of regret it. I've spent money on replacing software to fix a few critical things already - like being able to use my Fujitsu scanner in Catalina.
As someone who only jumped to Mac in 2011 after 15 years of using Windows/x86 exclusively i am really concerned about application compatibility with this ARM move.
When i first got a Mac running Lion 10.7 (2011 Air 13"), PowerPC compatibility using Rosetta had just been removed so i missed out on running some of my favourite Windows games with ease as there was PowerPC versions of those games . I did find work arounds using WINE or buying Parallels but i just wanted the native Mac version to work
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Slowly since owning one i had noticed the amount of programs for Mac had become the strongest it had ever been, and even games were slowly but surely becoming available more on Mac. Then Apple kill 32bit in Catalina and half the games no longer run and other old apps have been killed, so now thats all the Power PC software and all the 32 Bit gone.
Now we move to ARM what happens to the apps? Will the 64 bit apps i run today still be allowed to be run in years to come on ARM using emulation or will Apple pull the equivalent of the Rosetta engine for x64 emulation out in 4 years time and even worse with their new OS every year make holding onto the older OS that can run them even harder.
It does not matter how amazing an OS is to use , and MacOS has had a crisp clean consistent UI for 20 years that is very reliable, but if there are no apps to actually run i'm going to have a big problem.
When i first got a Mac running Lion 10.7 (2011 Air 13"), PowerPC compatibility using Rosetta had just been removed so i missed out on running some of my favourite Windows games with ease as there was PowerPC versions of those games . I did find work arounds using WINE or buying Parallels but i just wanted the native Mac version to work
.Slowly since owning one i had noticed the amount of programs for Mac had become the strongest it had ever been, and even games were slowly but surely becoming available more on Mac. Then Apple kill 32bit in Catalina and half the games no longer run and other old apps have been killed, so now thats all the Power PC software and all the 32 Bit gone.
Now we move to ARM what happens to the apps? Will the 64 bit apps i run today still be allowed to be run in years to come on ARM using emulation or will Apple pull the equivalent of the Rosetta engine for x64 emulation out in 4 years time and even worse with their new OS every year make holding onto the older OS that can run them even harder.
It does not matter how amazing an OS is to use , and MacOS has had a crisp clean consistent UI for 20 years that is very reliable, but if there are no apps to actually run i'm going to have a big problem.
it still matters a lot, on windows side, is pure garbage...i had surface pro X and every app that wasnt arm based written was....untouchable ...emulation is like in the 90
So thats why , i think Apple makes this transition smooth, they offer everything from time
I loved the 12 inch Macbook, hopefully they bring it back in a black variant- boost the power and also add the glowing apple logo back.
Literally just defecated myself in terror.
Apple's done this before, but I doubt they'll do it again, if for no other reason than most of their machines shipped today are laptops and they've been running as close as they can to a low power budget for a while as it is on laptops. It's also a lot more complicated, still leaves them tied to intel's cycle, removes incentive for devs to quickly update to arm/fat binaries, and is generally counter to Apple's strategy since the days of the G3 iMacs of just ripping off the band-aid at once on major changes
