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  • Inside the 2016 MacBook Pro -- CPU choices

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    foggyhill said:
    javacowboy said:
    If Apple switches from Intel to their variant of ARM what does this mean for?
    1. Windows (BootCamp, Parallels/VMWare/VirtualBox)
    2. Running other OS's in VM's like Linux, etc?
    3. Software that relies on x86, including various unix command line tools, brew/nix, Java/Eclipse/IntelliJ, databases like Postgres/etc?
    4. Specialized, complex, professional GUI software beyond that which can be safely ported with a recompile such as Adobe CS/Microsoft Office, etc?
    I think Apple knows they're in a pickle with the Intel situation but switching to ARM would cause a slew of problems with the above use cases.
    Most Apple buyers don't give a shit about all that; they just want to get the job done.
    IOS app variants for the desktop could work.

    For that do, if they keep the pro line, they can still keep Intel for that.
    Pro users care.  This thread is about the MacBook Pro, not the MacBook.
    toranaga

  • Inside the 2016 MacBook Pro -- CPU choices

    javacowboyjavacowboy
    bkkcanuck said:
    I suppose that Oracle has made inroads getting the JVM onto ARM but in the meantime the transition would suck for JVM devs on macOS.
    The transition would be non-existent.  Java running on ARM/macOS is no more difficult than running on Intel/macOS.  Java is already available for Linux ARM -- macOS ARM would likely have a larger marketshare...
    I'm not that optimistic that GUI apps in Swing/SWT including the popular Java IDEs would work seamlessly right away.