There's this misconception that an Apple Mac based on ARM is going to use the same chipset as the mobile lineup. This is not true and will not happen. ARM is a scalable architecture. Apple's going to design and build their own Desktop Class ARM processors that would be too large or hot to be put in an iOS device. Think in terms of an Apple ARM processor that approaches Ampere's offerings
There's this misconception that an Apple Mac based on ARM is going to use the same chipset as the mobile lineup. This is not true and will not happen. ARM is a scalable architecture. Apple's going to design and build their own Desktop Class ARM processors that would be too large or hot to be put in an iOS device. Think in terms of an Apple ARM processor that approaches Ampere's offerings
I agree, but I don't understand how. I guess I understand when Apple only had the A-series chip that Ax (where x is the most common value for the chip name) was used as a placeholder term for Apple's ARM designs, but for people to think that their Ax was the fastest and most powerful chip Apple could design despite the A-series being designed for a small, portable, fanless system seems shortsighted.
The same prophetic Steve Jobs, who said: "If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth – and get busy on the next great thing."
This is what I have seen over the last decade or so, ever since the iPod, iPhone and iPad took off: Not much love for the Mac, but plenty milking an existing user base.
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I think this escapes most.
This is what I have seen over the last decade or so, ever since the iPod, iPhone and iPad took off: Not much love for the Mac, but plenty milking an existing user base.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/04/12/how-to-live-with-a-mac-mini-or-macbook-air-with-a-small-internal-drive