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When is Apple's next refresh of Macbooks?
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Me neither. You have to realise that as soon as Apple considers it doable, they will axe the Windows support and just leave virtual.
That would be my guess also.
The last thing Apple wants to do is support Windows on Macs and fix bugs that may be caused by Microsoft. No developer or team of developers every wants to support someone else's code
The only way to "axe" windows is to leave the X86 chipset and that in of itself will kill off virtualization as well. I've been a Mac user since the PPC days and they had software to emulate an intel CPU so you could run windows and let me tell you, you really don't want to run an OS in emulation. To say it was painfully slow is an understatement.
Apple did not initially provide Bootcamp when they embraced the X86 chipsets, but only after hobbyists were doing it, and they saw a new segment of customers who wanted to run windows on Mac hardware. To that end, I don't see them trying to slam the door on that while running Intel CPUs.
I would bet money that 2020-2021 will still have Intel inside.
Apple is clearly not that eager to develop new processors for Macs. Financial Results speak for themselves
I'm pretty sure Apple has been developing and testing their own processors on macs, in parallel, internally for years. They did this prior to the Intel switch as well. Apple takes it's time and doesn't do something until they are sure. You may be right that they might miss or delay that target timeframe, for whatever reason. But they've been making their own processors, on macs. They will release them. It's just a matter of when. They will make the switch for the same reason they switched from PowerPC to Intel years ago because they are dependant on a supplier that isn't doing their part and they are being hurt by it. Or other reasons, like developing their own processors allows them to make things thinner or more power efficient or makes their development more efficient. or a number of collective reasons.
Agreed, Apple has always been in the business of making solid hardware, not software. They could have cut out Windows bootcamp long ago if they had wanted to, all they would have had to do was cut driver support and cut bootcamp boot access and you wouldn’t be able to run Windows.
I feel pretty safe too, whatever chip Apple designs will have some way to run Windows, either in Bootcamp or in some VM application that Apple provides.
Yes but for Apple, in short, they money is mainly in iPhone sales and services sales. Not in Macs/MacOS. At least for the time being. I think 2022 or 2023 might be the time when iPhone sales start decreasing and Apple will focus their efforts on Macs/computer hardware.