> Mac Sales absolutely crushed the number, by an almost 3B beat (9B vs 6B). That is HUGE.
I'm eagerly waiting to be an early adopter on their non-Intel laptops as soon as they come out as well. I'm sure I'm not alone.
I'm eagerly waiting to be an early adopter on their non-Intel laptops as soon as they come out as well. I'm sure I'm not alone.
I don't always apply it, admittedly: I ordered a HomePod the day they were announced.
But you'd have to pay me to be part of the first wave of A series Macs. Second is a maybe, third, I'd consider it, by the fourth I'm positively looking forward to it.
I'm glad there are people like you, who are willing to shake the bugs out on my behalf ;)
I’m not in the market for a laptop now, but I’m really curious about what’s in the pipeline. Oddly enough, My MBP is about as old as the tibook was in that transition, but it’s not feeling slow or ole enough to replace yet.
I guess you can thank Intel for a decade of stagnation.
Who knows if they'll do better this time. But the not knowing in itself is a pretty good reason to let somebody else be the guinea pig.
If so that rules out a significant number of development use cases.
So there will be no way to run Windows/Intel in a VM? Or even Linux/Intel or older versions of Mac OS for that matter?
That's bad.
Instead, what you will do is get a new version of x86 virtualization applications (like Parallels) that run directly on top of Apple Silicon--in other words, you use them instead of Rosetta 2, not on top of Rosetta 2. That's what easton is talking about, above.
So having Docker working on the ARM version of linux is a good portion of the work needed to get it to run on ARM MacOS. You still have to get the VM and communications setup done, but Apple has already said they have done much of that work.
It will take quite some time for everything to be ported. And there will always be the longtail that never will be.
My iPad Pro has become my default mobile device, so I'd prefer to get something like a Mac Mini and am hoping they have something worth buying. The current Mac Mini is just a hard no at this point.