sweetheart777

canukstorm said:

sweetheart777 said:

Windows users don’t know it yet, but Microsoft is putting its emphasis on the enterprise and not fretting over the consumer market. Office 365 works well on Apple Silicon. Gaming is either Xbox or Apple Silicon going forward. Microsoft is doubling down on Azure. Windows 10 may be dead in 3 years.

I wouldn't bank on that.

Well, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 lives on and is powering equipment at many a building. Let's see if Microsoft is willing to just milk that cow rather than seek out new pastures. They can keep revenue going nicely by promoting thin clients that connect to Windows "in the Azure cloud."

Oh, and it’s not Windows 10 on Arm. It’s Windows 10 on Qualcomm. There is no macOS on Arm. It’s macOS/tvOS/iPadOS/iOS on Apple Silicon.

Apple asked Microsoft whether they would be willing to port Windows to Apple silicon. Microsoft said they weren’t well-positioned for that since their Arm work is heavily Qualcomm dependent. 

aaarrrgggh said:

Ok, so I am starting to feel old now.  I remember the 90nm “wall” from the G5 days...

I remember being on a team designing the first gigabit Ethernet silicon at 120nm about 20 years ago, thinking we were flush against the fastest and smallest anyone had ever done. 

Although I’m rooting for Apple silicon to debut with 12 Cores, eight cores and 16 threads on the Intel MacBook Pro will be hard to beat. The 28-core/56-thread Intel Mac Pro will remain the apple of my eye until I can get 48 cores @2 GHz in a laptop or 128 threads @3 GHz in a desktop.

I still hope they will make a new Mac Pro that allows plugging in multiple Apple Silicon and/or Intel cores on discrete cards. Let me have 256 threads of ARM64 and appropriate GPU wave frontage (~128,000 CU) and I don’t need to think about Intel ever again.

Parallels weeps!

One of the reasons why, as a serious developer, I love the Mac is that I can run macOS, Windows, Linux and OpenBSD simultaneously.

i hope there will be laptop and Mac Pro options that have both ARM and x86-64 processors.