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> Of course, nobody will decide to buy or not buy products with "Apple Silicon" based on their performance. That's exactly the reason why you would chose Apple

by Tepix 6y ago

> Of course, nobody will decide to buy or not buy products with "Apple Silicon" based on their performance. That's exactly the reason why you would chose Apple Silicon right now where you can choose between Intel and Apple SoC. There are of course other reasons such as battery life and price.

AnthonyMouse 6y ago
Not really. Right now Apple Silicon would be translating most code and therefore be slower and possibly have worse battery life. By the time that isn't true anymore, the option of buying Intel from Apple will be gone and your choices will be ARM from Apple or a PC with Intel/AMD. The x64 options from Apple are also uncompetitive with existing PCs already because they're using Intel processors when AMD's are faster.
- greedo 6y ago
  Most code? I would imagine that most code run on Apple laptops today would start with Safari. And then Slack, some IDEs, etc etc. These will all get ported extremely fast if they haven't already been. There will be a long tail of edge case software that runs in emulation, but that won't affect the majority of users.
  - AnthonyMouse 6y ago
    That's not how the long tail works. Any given esoteric piece of software won't be used by very many people, but very many people will use some esoteric piece of software. You also have the problem with proprietary software that even if a port exists, it's not the version you have an existing license for, and you may not be able to afford a new laptop and all new software at the same time.
    - greedo 6y ago
      That's partially correct, and partially wrong. Long tail means that few people will buy/use a particular software package, but that if you have lots of such packages, you can make money. In the case of Apple Silicon, if there's an "esoteric" package, by definition it's only used by a small number of people.

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> Of course, nobody will decide to buy or not buy products with "Apple Silicon" based on their performance. That's exactly the reason why you would chose Apple

by Tepix 6y ago

AnthonyMouse 6y ago
Not really. Right now Apple Silicon would be translating most code and therefore be slower and possibly have worse battery life. By the time that isn't true anymore, the option of buying Intel from Apple will be gone and your choices will be ARM from Apple or a PC with Intel/AMD. The x64 options from Apple are also uncompetitive with existing PCs already because they're using Intel processors when AMD's are faster.
- greedo 6y ago
  Most code? I would imagine that most code run on Apple laptops today would start with Safari. And then Slack, some IDEs, etc etc. These will all get ported extremely fast if they haven't already been. There will be a long tail of edge case software that runs in emulation, but that won't affect the majority of users.
  - AnthonyMouse 6y ago
    That's not how the long tail works. Any given esoteric piece of software won't be used by very many people, but very many people will use some esoteric piece of software. You also have the problem with proprietary software that even if a port exists, it's not the version you have an existing license for, and you may not be able to afford a new laptop and all new software at the same time.
    - greedo 6y ago
      That's partially correct, and partially wrong. Long tail means that few people will buy/use a particular software package, but that if you have lots of such packages, you can make money. In the case of Apple Silicon, if there's an "esoteric" package, by definition it's only used by a small number of people.