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There is no question in my mind that Apple will gradually switch from Intel to ARM. I don't think it will happen until 2014, when the first 64-bit ARM designs c
by dlevine 14y ago
There is no question in my mind that Apple will gradually switch from Intel to ARM. I don't think it will happen until 2014, when the first 64-bit ARM designs come out. At the current rate of improvement, ARM processors in two years will offer roughly 4X what today's chips offer (with a better power consumption profile than current low-end Intel designs). By that point, ARM performance will probably be "good enough" for lower-end machines (such as the MBA) to use ARM rather than Intel.
I also think it's possible that iOS will eventually become the successor to Mac OSX.
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- protomyth 14y agoOne thing in favor of the move is customization. Intel has done an amazing job of removing the customization options from the x86 eco-system. No NVIDIA chipsets and no hooking into the faster bus on Intel motherboards. This has to be a problem for a company like Apple trying to build something non-stock. Also, I cannot imagine the whole "Intel paying people to clone the MacBook Air" was well received in Cupertino.
- 0x0 14y agoI find it incredibly hard to believe that iOS will replace OSX. An iOS that would be capable of developing iOS apps as efficiently as Xcode on OSX would be a very different iOS from anything like the versions we have seen to date.