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Apple will still be selling and supporting x86 machines for many years, possibly forever.
by nutjob2 7y ago
Apple will still be selling and supporting x86 machines for many years, possibly forever.
- fluffything 7y agox86-32bit, PowerPC... nvm.
- nutjob2 7y agoI think if they wanted to get to parity with Intel or AMD with the higher end desktop processors they may have quite a bit of work ahead of them, and for a relatively small market, so it's questionable if they would want to sink precious engineering resources into that. On the portable side though its a no-brainer. I don't see Apple having x86 in new laptops at all after the transition. But Apple may stop making high end desktop systems all together so it is possible. It's a very small part of their revenue.
- Hamuko 7y ago>But Apple may stop making high end desktop systems all together so it is possible. It's a very small part of their revenue. That's what they said when the Mac Pro was neglected and they still designed a brand new machine to sell.
- reitzensteinm 7y agoMy pet theory is that we're going to see an eventual release of the planned but mothballed ARM Zen chips, which Apple could then use for the Mac Pro etc.
- dsteinman 7y agoAnyone recall how fast the G4 chips got phased out once Apple switched to Intel? It was pretty fast. Granted, they were a much smaller company at that time.