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Well, this wouldn't be the first time they've switched architectures. Before, it was PowerPC to x86, back around 2006.

• city41 6y ago
  And before that, Motorola 68k.
  • monocasa 6y ago
    For each of those there was a clear perf advantage on the transition though.
    • scarface74 6y ago
      For native apps sure. But my 6100/60 - the slowest PPC Mac - was slower in emulation than my LCII with a 68030-40Mhz accelerator. My computer was less than half the speed of the high end 040s at the time.
    • jkestner 6y ago
      1. We haven’t yet seen what Apple's desktop-class chip can do. 2. Performance per watt is critical. Apple moved to Intel in large part because PowerPC couldn’t get this down, and one of the first two Intel Macs introduced was the MacBook Pro.