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I'd guess option A. They aren't doing radical redesigns, so ramping up is easy and fast. They've pulled an Osborne Effect on their Intel devices by announcing
by hajile 6y ago
I'd guess option A.
They aren't doing radical redesigns, so ramping up is easy and fast.
They've pulled an Osborne Effect on their Intel devices by announcing they are transitioning in just a couple years. Nobody wants to buy a brand-new second-class product.
Finally, launching their new laptops this fall means they are half-way through their transition time, but just getting started with their most powerful segment.
- gumby 6y agoThere are still a lot of people who need Intel, primarily people doing cloud development and in particular those who aren’t using an interpreted language. I don’t how big this group is as a percentage of Apple customers, but in an absolute sense it’s significant — several $B worth anyway. Also there are people who won’t buy M1 because they are (probably correctly, though I haven’t had any problems) hearing that not everything works right yet. If my mother needed to replace her MacBook Air today I’d get her an Intel one. I expect her next machine with be Mx though. I suspect Apple will continue selling Intel-based machines into 2022, and perhaps longer. I doubt they will update them though.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoThey said the transition would be completed within two years. I imagine they have a pretty good idea how many people are using Bootcamp or Windows VM's and have already decided it isn't significant enough to stop them transitioning.
- gumby 6y agoI assumed they meant every Mac in the product line would have an ARM version. I presume a few of the Intel-based SKUs will remain until demand ebbs, but probably not every one (e.g. perhaps only the 16” MBP and the Pro)
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoI suspect they won't want Intel hanging around any longer than necessary because it will delay the point where they can stop supporting both architectures in future versions of macOS.