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When Apple releases ARM Macs I think we are all going to be really impressed. Take these phone chips, beef them up a bit with more cores and maybe more cache, c
by api 6y ago
When Apple releases ARM Macs I think we are all going to be really impressed. Take these phone chips, beef them up a bit with more cores and maybe more cache, clock them a bit higher, and give them better cooling so they can sustain higher speeds.
If it goes how I think it will go, X86 is done. People will really start wanting ARM on servers.
- rowanG077 6y agoUnfortunately there are no other ARM designs that can compete with X86. And Apple CPUs will only run in Apple Hardware executing Apple Software.
- otterley 6y agoHave you looked at AWS' new Graviton2 instances? They compete handily with x86-64 instance performance, and are cheaper to boot. https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-graviton2-arm-against-intel-and-amd https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...
- rowanG077 6y agoGraviton can't compete with x86. It can only compete on AWS on server workloads. I can't buy a Graviton workstation/server. There are no Graviton laptops.
- corty 6y agoPeople have been wanting ARM servers since the first ones were announced. But there are two big problems. First, there is no unified boot- and device initialisation-standard. So you cannot just put in a bootable USB stick and expect it to work. Second, you can not reliably order any hardware, just very small series just above prototype stages...
- my123 6y ago> First, there is no unified boot- and device initialisation-standard. There is. UEFI + ACPI. > So you cannot just put in a bootable USB stick and expect it to work. That's how it works today for Arm servers. Windows on Arm platforms also use UEFI + ACPI, and ship with the bootloader unlocked.
- jeffbee 6y agoThe first part made sense but the second part didn’t. The server people won’t be waiting. If they could profitably port their workload to another platform then they would just do it.
- heavyset_go 6y agoI won't be very impressed if I can't install Linux on them after Apple deprecates macOS support on older models. I already can't do that with old iPhones and iPads.