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Apple has already made it difficult for data scientists by not providing Nvidea drivers supporting cuda. The real problem is not virtualization for Windows. Rather it is virtualization for Docker and and to a lesser extent for VirtualBox. Docker con…

in Apple's shift to ARM Mac at WWDC will define a decade of computing Comment by jharner June 2020
The problem is that Macs are used extensively in STEM, including data science and statistics. These disciplines depend almost entirely on open source software that runs on UNIX/Linux. Further, increasingly applications are dockerized meaning the dev…

in Ten years of Apple technology shifts made the ARM Mac possible Comment by jharner June 2020
Xed said: dblanch369 said: Why does this obsession the media has with this “switch from Intel to ARM” persist? Having the Intel processor is key to keeping and getting converts from Windows. If my Mac couldn’t also run Windows stuff, …

in Apple was cautious when it shifted to Intel, and an ARM Mac migration will be no different... Comment by jharner June 2020
If macOS for ARM does not support the UNIX side, then the Mac in STEM will be dead. If macOS for ARM does not support a hypervisor for Docker, etc., then the Mac in STEM will be on life support. The data sciences are moving to containerization with …

in Apple transition to own ARM chips in Macs rumored to start at WWDC Comment by jharner June 2020