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  • Apple unveils plans to ditch Intel chips in Macs for 'Apple Silicon'

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    crowley said:
    If Rosetta is generating a translation of x86 apps on install, does that mean the storage for those apps is going to balloon (until they get recompiled, obvs)?

    Barely... binary code is usually a fraction of the actual size of an app. Most space is taken up by resources (images, videos, etc.), not code.
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  • Apple unveils plans to ditch Intel chips in Macs for 'Apple Silicon'

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    johnbear said:
    Sad! grab an Intel Mac Pro while you can. ARM Macs will be inferior in performance. 


    *sigh*

    We just saw the Intel version of Maya running on an A12Z-based Mac. That Mac is just a Developer Kit - it is not in anyway indicative of the the SoCs Apple is designing specifically for the Mac.

    Maya’s own minimum recommendations for running their software is a 3.6GHz  8-core i7 and 16GB of RAM.
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  • How 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' relies on an iPad Pro for production

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    frank777 said:
    An unwatchable show, but that has nothing to do with the use of the iPad.

    Absolutely. Late Night TV is North America is drivel. But this article is really interesting for its behind-the-scenes information.

    The biggest takeaway for me is that the fact that the iPad Pro has a substandard selfie camera has now been highlighted for millions during this pandemic. (Not just this show, lots of other programs are casually mentioning they are being produced on an iPad.)

    In the fall, Apple's going to need to update the camera (or introduce a higher-end model for videocasters.) You can't have one of your signature products being blamed for low-quality video around the entire world.

    The 7MP selfie camera supports 1080p @ 60fps, which is more than fine for video chat. Most service provider's upload bandwidth is abysmal at just a fraction of the download bandwidth... so, the bottleneck isn't the camera, it's the Internet connection (which was mentioned in the article). Having a higher quality camera is not going to help.

    The issue is that he's kind of stuck using the selfie camera so he can see the screen while using the teleprompter app... Most people would not need to record themselves in this manner, they would instead use the appropriate rear camera, which is much higher quality (4K).
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  • Apple's shift to ARM Mac at WWDC will define a decade of computing

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    Rayz2016 said:
    So if only 2% of Mac users are dual booting, then it’s possible that Apple isn’t too fussed about running Windows. 

    I don't think Apple gives a rats ass about the virtualization crowd... they can either buy a WIntel machine or continue using their current Mac for it. Apple's not going to hold its future roadmap hostage over this single issue.
    That's my issue with the modern Apple, around macOS at least. There're so many groups of people they supposedly don't give a rat's ass about that eventually most people that use their Mac for more than a Facebook machine fall into one of those groups. There are a lot of these "single issues" that Apple shouldn't give a crap about according to forum-goers here, but all those single issues add up. I seem to be getting hit by a lot of them right now. They can stomp over their iOS user base and no one cares because iOS devices don't need much compatibility or openness, and the size of the iOS market means it's worth devs keeping up. The same can't be said for macOS. Power users on Macs don't like being shat on by the company they've supported for several decades just because it's convenient for Apple to do so. The machines are getting more and more expensive but with less and less software and hardware features. And as much as I hate to say it, Windows is nowhere near as terrible as it used to be.

    Modern Apple?

    Apple has always done things their way - specific segment of user base be damned. Whatever group of users drop by the wayside, others will fill in because of whatever change was made, made it better, easier for them. This is the nature of evolution. Being able to run another OS does not require virtualization. That, is just a convenience. Very, very few people buy a Mac to mainly run Windows.

    Even then, I don't see a big issue... If Apple does move the Mac to ARM, isn't there an ARM version of Windows now? Aren't pretty much all distros of Linux and UNIX supporting / starting to support armv8?

    As I've said before, I would be more excited to see Apple ditch x64 and armv8 and develop their own ISA.
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  • Ten years of Apple technology shifts made the ARM Mac possible

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    I still think for this “final” architecture transition Apple will bypass ARM altogether and create their own ISA. All their devices will eventually make the switch and Apple will again have control over another core technology. It’s the next logical step of their “bringing everything in house” game plan. It’s the same route they took with graphics... make the API, Metal, then create a custom GPU that is optimized for it. They created the Swift language, so I am guessing they also worked on a new ISA that can also optimize the hell out of code.
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