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They have certainly optimised against some key aspects of their software (eg Rosetta and reference counting) but that is not at the expense of other software. T

They have certainly optimised against some key aspects of their software (eg Rosetta and reference counting) but that is not at the expense of other software. The M1 Arm CPUs are just very fast general purpose CPUs. Word and Autocad also run on the Mac!

rbanffy 6y ago
> but that is not at the expense of other software It's always at the expense of something. Transistor budget is fixed.
- klelatti 6y ago
  Maybe they've used the transistors freed up from not having to support a legacy ISA.
  - rbanffy 6y ago
    That's still not free - you are locked out from a software base. Today it's cheap, but, still, not free.