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  • Apple debuts new $5999 Mac Pro with up to 28-core Xeon processors

    morkymorky
    bitmod said:
    Apple missed the mark completely on this... completely. They custom designed a Mac Pro for Pixar... what about the rest of us? FFS...
    iMac Pro? Or a high-end iMac? They seem to have the spectrum of needs covered now. There is a contingent that needs as much power as possible; this is for them.
    StrangeDayscornchipCraig Pchiafastasleepwatto_cobra

  • Steve Jobs predicted the Mac's move from Intel to ARM processors

    morkymorky
    The author states that the transition will be difficult for developers, as it was in the PPC to Intel transition, but will it really be nearly as difficult? No transition to Xcode is required as it was then as it has long been the only option, and they have deprecated the use of other programming languages other than their own Obj-C and Swift. Apple also controls the compiler tech they use, and has long discouraged developers from working outside their development stack. Could it be that the "click this button" to create a universal binary, while exaggerating the ease of transition 13 years ago, would now actually work without any source code updates?
    fastasleep

  • Stop panicking about Apple's rumored switch from Intel to its own chips in the Mac

    morkymorky
    They own the IDE, programming languages and compiler for their platform and I'm sure this has been in the works for years. Guaranteed this will be much closer to a simple recompile for developers than the PPC to Intel switch was. 
    mike egglestonfastasleep

  • Apple working 24/7 to finish downtown Brooklyn store as giant glass pane shatters

    morkymorky
    Awesome, an Apple store close to home, finally! Brooklyn has been severely neglected. Fourth largest city in America if not part of NYC, and just one Apple store.
    cali

  • With iPhone 8, Apple's Silicon Gap widens as the new A11 Bionic obliterates top chips from...

    morkymorky
    jeff_cook said:

    birko said:
    Salivating at the possibility of A12 in macbook
    Apple won't use the Ax in Macs until they outperform Intel's best chips.  Putting Ax processors in MacBooks will only diminish Apple's buying power with Intel.

    Besides, a new class of Ax processors would be required to operate MacOS applications.  You don't want to force developers to recompile for a new processor design when all of their experience/expertise is firmly established in existing technology.  The exception to that statement is a processor that can operate two different OSs ala MacOS 9/MacOS X.
    There is no reason to put it in the smaller MacBook.   They will put it iPad Pro and continue to build out iOS for iPad to have the same desktop features as MacOS.  Eventually it will to replace the need for MacBook as iPad Pro gains more MacOS ported features. MacBook and MacBook Pro can continue along in parallel as this happens until it makes no sense to buy them anymore.    Give me a trackpad and adjustable hinge on a smart keyboard that attaches to the 12.9 inch and a few more Apple native MacOS apps ported over and I'm good. Terminal, etc.  They already are taking the steps to go in that direction.   Dock, Multitasking, Files (aka Finder lite). 

    MacOS is already feeling like it is falling behind in features in some way.  HomeKit, lack of App availability.  I think if Apple had an opportunity to get people off MacOS and only one common iOS platform (TV, iPhone, iPad, iPad Pro (Desktop replacement) ), then they would take it. If they can get people to move from MacOS on MacBook to iOS on iPad Pro by providing enough Desktop features in iOS, then I think they would be in a much stronger market position on the Desktop.   More Apps, more secure OS, less SW development efforts using a unified SW platform.

    I dont have a magic 8 ball, however indications do seem like they are heading in this direction.  I have no pressing reason to upgrade to High Sierra. It just not that much of a feature release for me and I suspect others.  The MacOS team has obviously focused on something else over the past year. 
    I agree with gregg thurman that they will have to outperform Intel's best, but I don't think they are far off from that, especially if you consider they wouldn't just use an iPhone/iPad chip in a top-end Mac - there would be custom silcon for it. In general I believe you are correct on the indications: I think there is a long term one-architecture strategy at Apple. If anyone remembers the 2006 transition from PowerPC to Intel, it was incredibly smooth via the use of universal binaries and Rosetta. Apple's control of the development stack has only become more complete since then, and the legacy classic MacOS cruft made possible by Carbon support is now long gone. We could expect a transition to ARM from Intel would go even smoother.

    To your point, I just don't know if they are going to evolve iOS into a version that can take on the Mac's desktop features and capable of running Mac apps, or to simply migrate MacOS to ARM. The former is enticing because it creates the possibility of using your phone as your PC to run all desktop Mac software, with only the more power-needy users buying dedicated laptops and desktops. The only loss here would be for Boot Camp/VMware/Parallels users, but I doubt that would be a show-stopper for Apple.
    watto_cobra