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Honestly it's hard to imagine. Laptops are an incredibly important form factor. I actually suspect the move to/inclusion of ARM in the macOS lines of product
by skohan 7y ago
Honestly it's hard to imagine. Laptops are an incredibly important form factor.
I actually suspect the move to/inclusion of ARM in the macOS lines of product is part of the motivation behind dumping support for 32-bit apps in Catalina. By preemtively removing support for a large amount of legacy software, which will likely never be recompiled for ARM, they avoid the situation where their new machines appear much less capable than the old ones.
- mrpippy 7y agoExactly. By “clearing the deck” of all APIs (and software using them) that won’t make it to ARM, they can position it as the same OS and apps, just running on a more-efficient chip. And for 90+% of Catalina-compatible apps, a recompile is all that’s needed. (And/or they’ll have an emulator)
- pjmlp 7y agoIn the PC world, 2-1 like the Surface are taking over classical laptops.
- wooger 7y agoAre they? Certainly not in sales. There was a push to make all laptops have a touchscreen a few years back, but this seems to have fizzled out, and I've seldom seen anyone use them (deliberately anyway).
- pjmlp 7y agoHere in Germany if you go to a local consumer shop, there aren't many classical laptops left to chose from.