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Apple debuts new MacBook Air with Apple Silicon M1 chip
Why would you overcomplicate things and potentially artificially limit performance like that? What if you are using your MacBook Air in a cold environment and there is greater thermal headroom?Xed said:
I wager that it's more than just using thermostats to initiate a throttle, but coding that tells the chip where its thresholds are based on the device it's in.
Or conversely, what if you are using your MBA in a hotter environment and there is less thermal headroom? You'd risk damage.
No, the simplest solution is the obvious one - if the chip isn't hot, let it rip. If it starts to exceed the thermal limits, throttle it back. No need for other complicated schemes that might fail in ways you didn't anticipate. Keep it simple. Thermal management is mature tech and for CPUs the only metric that matters. Am I too hot or not. A chip is probably less likely to get too hot in a MBP with a fan, but again if the ambient temperature is way up there the fact that the CPU is in a MBP doesn't mean much if the chip is still overheating.
For performance purposes what chassis the CPU is in is what we called "extra information" in word math problems. Information that may be interesting, but is totally irrelevant to solving the problem. You just ignore it (or risk solving the problem wrong if you try to use it).
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Apple debuts new MacBook Air with Apple Silicon M1 chip
The same way you do on an iPad - the app store.mwhite said:My question is how do you install and iPad app on these new Mac's?Whether they mix everything into the Mac App store or introduce an iOS app store alongside the Mac App Store that remains to be seen.
I suspect the Mac app store will expand. Hopefully they will handle it better than the UI unification with the Music App and Apple Music vs. your personal library
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Apple debuts new MacBook Air with Apple Silicon M1 chip
It is on these Mac's since you can literally run the iPad app on themMplsP said:Citrix on the iPad is not the same as Citrix on a desktop.
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Apple debuts new MacBook Air with Apple Silicon M1 chip
Windows was a hot mess period in those days but yes, software emulation on PowerPC didn’t help back then either.elijahg said:Perhaps Apple will release a dual-CPU machine with an Intel CPU and an M1, so we don't have to live with emulation. Emulation is horribly slow without hardware support. Don't know if you ever tried to use Windows on a PPC Mac, but it was excruciatingly slow.
However this is no longer the 90’s/early 2000’s. Apple has complete control over the instruction set in their chips so they could be working with parallels and if there are one or two areas that would dramatically help emulation they could do that.
I guess another way to put it - just because it sucked a couple of decades ago I wouldn’t automatically assume it will suck just as bad now. It may - but if Apple didn’t care about it they wouldn’t have had Parallels on stage during WWDC - anything presented on stage is a pretty deliberate decision since stage time is a finite quantity.
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Apple debuts new MacBook Air with Apple Silicon M1 chip
Yes - there is Rosetta2 technology. AI has several good articles discussing it from when it was introduced back at the world wide developers conference. Just search the site for Rosetta 2 and they should pop right upquadra 610 said:Will this run legacy apps? As in, do current apps need to be ported over? Will there be Rosetta-like technology available?Sorry if this was made clear already.
