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Your fear assumes they're going to transition their whole lineup. I suspect ARM based Macs will be sluggish just like the new Windows ARM based machines. So the
by jarjoura 7y ago
Your fear assumes they're going to transition their whole lineup. I suspect ARM based Macs will be sluggish just like the new Windows ARM based machines. So they'll only switch over at the low-end with LTE built in. Who knows though, maybe everyone will buy them up and developers will port their software and Docker will figure out how to make it work.
- valine 7y agoIf the arm based Macs are anything like the iPad Pro they will be the opposite of sluggish. Apple will likely keep Intel based machines around for software compatibility reasons, but that has nothing to do with performance.
- freehunter 7y agoOn that note, with the iPad Pro becoming more like a laptop (mouse support, external drive support, rumors of XCode coming to the iPad soon, etc) why would they bother moving Macs to ARM rather than expanding the iPad lineup and phasing out Macs? It seems pretty clear that Apple doesn’t care about the Mac market anymore, and they already have a version of OSX running on ARM in the hands of millions of end users: the iPhone and iPad.