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Well if it’s just as fast, what is there to be excited about?

• chipotle_coyote 6y ago
  Insert "not sure if trolling" GIF here, but you get that what the OP is saying is that when M1 Macs run x86 code in emulation they're often running it as fast as comparable x86 processors run it natively, right?
  • ksm1717 6y ago
    Right, but if the conversation is about how this is going to change Broadway or anything, running just as fast means nothing changes (the case if you have to emulate)
    • chipotle_coyote 6y ago
      The conversation started by the linked article is clearly suggesting it can change Broadway when software is recompiled to run natively with Apple Silicon, though, and this is a perfectly reasonable take. An M1-based Mac mini that's actually less expensive than the Intel one it directly replaced can be a lot faster. The arguments in the thread about "but a lot of software right now runs in emulation" and "who knows when the software companies will get around to transitioning" aren't wrong, per se, but they're also arguments that long-time Apple users have heard variants of in the PowerPC to x86 transition. And in the (original) Mac OS to OS X transition. And in the 68K to PowerPC transition. It turns out that when transitioning your software to the new platform doubles your performance and/or is necessary to keep selling your product, you have a fairly strong motivation to do the work.
• count 6y ago
  20 hours of battery life...and no fan noise.