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Apple Will Reportedly Sell a New Mac Laptop With its Own Chips Next Year

posted by janrinok on Friday April 24 2020, @07:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the replacing-the-Apple's-core dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

CNet:

Apple will start selling Macs that use in-house processors in 2021, based on ones in upcoming iPhones and iPad Pros, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The company is apparently working on three of its own chips, suggesting a transition away from traditional supplier Intel.

The initial batch of custom chips won't be on the same level as the Intel ones used in high-end Apple computers, so they're likely to debut in a new type of laptop, the report noted. These processors could have eight high-performance cores and at least four energy-efficient cores, respectively codenamed Firestorm and Icestorm.

Just another brick in the wall[ed garden]?

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  • (Score: 1) by petecox on Saturday April 25 2020, @12:33AM (1 child)

    by petecox (3228) on Saturday April 25 2020, @12:33AM (#986775)

    Microsoft has tried to introduce Windows ARM devices. The failure is that people expect the Windows brand name to mean that all their legacy junk will run. That they won't have to re-purchase every single software package that they own, and that the software vendors won't price-gouge for the change. And how many legacy Windows programs are deeply tied to Intel?

    Intel Mac software won't run natively on ARM either. But MS, with Qualcomm, built in emulation. As apple did from 68k -> PPC -> x86, when Adobe wanted everybody to pay for a new architecture for Photoshop.

    I haven't tried a Surface Pro X but I suspect Microsoft learned from their failed WinRT experiments and now have a 2 year headstart on MacARM64.

    Or are you suggesting that the checkbox in Visual Studio to compile for ARM64 is somehow different from the checkbox in XCode to compile for ARM64?

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Saturday April 25 2020, @05:24PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 25 2020, @05:24PM (#987018) Journal

    I totally understand what you say, but it is irrelevant. That only applies to NEW software.

    And new also means newly compiled old software -- which the end user will have to re-purchase in many cases. Do you really think Adobe is not going to charge you again for an ARM compiled photoshop?

    IMO vast amounts of legacy Windows software have x86 dependencies that don't make it trivial to port to ARM or other architectures.

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