I don’t think so. I’ve got a 2019 MBP and yeah, the heat issue is a big problem. But they weren’t going to be left in the performance dust like the last times.

I don’t think so. I’ve got a 2019 MBP and yeah, the heat issue is a big problem. But they weren’t going to be left in the performance dust like the last times. Their chip supplier wasn’t going to stop selling chips to them. They would have likely had to give up on how thin their laptops were, but they could have continued on just fine. I do think the ARM transition wasn’t strictly good, it let them stay thin and quiet and cooler. They got economies of scale with their phone chips. But it wasn’t necessary to the degree the previous ones were.