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I think this is a good news. The vast amount of people use their laptop for little more than running a web browser, and AArch64 chips will make those laptops ch
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
I think this is a good news. The vast amount of people use their laptop for little more than running a web browser, and AArch64 chips will make those laptops cheaper to produce (intel charges Apple upwards of $400+ for high end chips[1])
Then there's everyone doing local development in interpreted languages, most of which have stable support for AArch64. Java, python, ruby, go on AArch64? No problem.
The biggest hit things will be mac-specific programs and software built specifically to work with BSD syscalls. We'll see about that stuff.
1. https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/04/24/how-much-does-intel-charge-apple.aspx https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/04/24/how-much-d...
- sigjuice 6y agoWhat is special about BSD syscalls on AArch64? Are you saying they will be different or absent?
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoPresumably there would be some incompatibility.
- sigjuice 6y agoWhat would be an example of such an incompatibility?