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Reasons? - Cost - Motherboard size - Performance per watt - Battery life - Custom optimizations I see no impediment to Apple running two CPU architectures
by sjwright 7y ago
Reasons?
- Cost
- Motherboard size
- Performance per watt
- Battery life
- Custom optimizations
I see no impediment to Apple running two CPU architectures in parallel for a decade. Arm for ultra-portables and base model Macs, Intel for mid/top spec macs.
Then eventually once the worldwide ecosystem becomes less x86 dominated, I could imagine Intel chips being a BTO option for people who need it, possibly even implemented as a secondary CPU available through a hypervisor.
But why does anyone really care about x86 vs ARM anyway? Assuming 100% of Mac software is recompiled, the only thing which would affect me is having Windows VMs with native speed... And I could easily replace that with a headless NUC and Remote Desktop.