Caporegime
Rumour confirmed. Intel are in a dark place right now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53142989
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53142989
I wonder whether this means that new Macs won't run Windows under Bootcamp? Or if they will then surely there would be a performance hit in Windows. I appreciate most people don't buy a Mac for Windows but it can be a factor in some people's decision such as running it for games.
Then they will control integration even more,meaning unlike older MacBooks which could last years,which were upgradeable
What realistically needs to be upgradable (outside of the obvious storage and ram)? The Mac users I know don't typically know anything about the CPU model, let alone go around swapping it out.
I predict that they will limit it to iMac's at the low end, and laptops at the low end e.g. Macbook and Air, and maybe a MacBook if it works well in a couple of years. Not a hope in hell's chance of them replacing a 'proper' Mac Pro with ARM, they simply don't have the volume of sales to make it worthwhile developing a CPU dedicated to this task.
Perhaps it will go the way of the Power PC era, last 5-6 years, and then disappear again.
Some of the performance on show tonight was mightily impressive, but also carefully stage-managed and curated. I'd like to see some real world performance before I consider it, but I will consider it. I don't give two hoots about synthetic benchmarks, more real world performance in applications that I use, such as Lightroom and FCPX.
...surely there would be a performance hit in Windows.
The Surface Pro X windows Windows on ARM so hopefully not a problem.
Perhaps it will go the way of the Power PC era, last 5-6 years, and then disappear again.
They said the transition will be complete in two years. I expect that by mid to late 2022, you won’t be able to buy an Intel based Mac.I predict that they will limit it to iMacs at the low end, and laptops at the low end e.g. Macbook and Air, and maybe a MacBook Pro if it works well in a couple of years. Not a hope in hell's chance of them replacing a 'proper' Mac Pro with ARM, they simply don't have the volume of sales to make it worthwhile developing a CPU dedicated to this task.
Current Macbooks aren't especially repairable so I'm not sure why you'd expect ARM ones to be.They will probably merge iOS and OS X together in a few years time,and force any software to be sold though a joint app store,so they can take a cut. If you look at Apple's investor calls,they are talking about becoming a "services company". I like to see how easy it is to repair the new ARM based MacBooks and how long they will keep upgrades going. If they are repairable,and actually have longer than 5 years support for the OS,then I might be more confident in what they are doing. As much as Windows has its flaws,the support period is quite long,unlike most of these OSes running on ARM based CPUs(although it shouldn't be that hard to have longer support if you look at Linux/BSD).
Current Macbooks aren't especially repairable so I'm not sure why you'd expect ARM ones to be.
And merging iOS with OSX would be odd given that they've just split iPad OS out from iOS. Why would you have phones and laptops on one OS and tablets on another?
New architecture so it would be emulation, or maybe Binary Translated but that would be a massive headache for an OS i'd have thought, and there will be a performance hit.
Unless you plan on running the ARM variant of windows, if MS make a compatible version, but then you'll be limited on what you can run.
They said the transition will be complete in two years. I expect that by mid to late 2022, you won’t be able to buy an Intel based Mac.