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>mac mini with A10 CPU

>MacBook air with the same guts as arm mini

>MacBook pros that are more powerful but not more powerfuller enough to satiate tech bloggers

>RIP in peace Mac Pro tower

>a Siri box for your house

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I'm not sure how seriously to take your predictions, but although Apple is making some fast and efficient processors these days I think seeing it cross over to their lap/desktop line ups is pretty far out in the future because of software reasons.

It's not like a program made for amd64 processor could just run on an ARM one, so most programs people know and love just wont work. Also, emulating 64/32 bit is a pain and very slow for ARM.

It seems quite possible that Apple is pushing iPad pro for work to get "desktop" programs working well on the chip, but it seems a bit of a ways offs to have those power efficient A chips anywhere outside of mobile...

Actually I think their long term plan will be to switch to ARM processors. Probably not just yet though. They have already made their software compile to platform independent code (I may have the terminology wrong, I'm not super familiar with it), which means all current software should be able to run on ARM. You can check out some more in-depth discussion about this topic here https://www.macobserver.com/columns-opinions/particle-debris...

People have been predicting MacOS/OSX on ARM for a long time now (at least since the A6).

If Apple really wanted it to happen, they'd make the Mac App Store suck less.

I don't see them making a Mac with a A10. But we'll know for sure on the 27th.

VR ready? Thoughts? Alienware is VR ready for around £1K, much cheaper than current apple laptop.

I think not, given Tim Cook's recent comments. They are much more interested in AR than VR.

http://mashable.com/2016/10/03/tim-cook-augmented-reality/#Z...

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