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  • Intel's Alder Lake chips are very powerful, and that's good for the entire industry

    albatrossflyeralbatrossflyer
    Competition is all well and good, but Intel isn't really competing with Apple.  Intel is competing with AMD.  With the market 90%+ Wintel and <10% Apple, Apple is niche competitor.  Ever wonder what tools Apple uses to design & engineer the M1 / M2 chips?  Guess what they run on Intel....
    JWSCelijahgwatto_cobra

  • 2022 Mac Pro said to use Intel Ice Lake Xeon W-3300 CPU

    albatrossflyeralbatrossflyer
    Is the M1 RAM ECC?  This is typically a "must have" in HPC workstations.
    darkvaderwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple Silicon Macs are needed for consumers and pro users alike

    albatrossflyeralbatrossflyer
    swineone said:
    melgross said:
    swineone said:
    "This works with any Intel Mac app" [quoted from the article, regarding Rosetta 2]

    Are you sure? Does that include Parallels running x86-64 Windows? It's quite telling that they mentioned Rosetta and virtualization, yet made no mention of this, which could alleviate concerns on many pro users' minds (myself included).
    I doubt they meant that. But as Apple has said, only 2% of Macs coming in for service had Windows installed in Bootcamp. How many are using Parallels or other virtualization software with Windows, I don’t know, but it’s not a lot. I have it too, but I haven’t run Windows for more than a year. I still do Run Linux occasionally though. So likely, from what I hear, that’s more important.

    i doubt I’d too many pro users use Windows on their Mac these days. It’s mostly used by gamers.
    I have zero games on my Windows installation under Parallels. I do have EDA software (electronics simulation, schematic capture, PCB routing, FPGAs, etc.), test & measurement software to interface with electronics T&M gear, MCAD software, software development apps (Visual Studio, the real one not the toy Code version, plus various embedded software tools), etc.

    Another group of people will have in-house apps that are Windows only.

    Maybe in your line of work pro users don't need Windows software. It doesn't mean no one else does.
    Ditto for me too.... 
    williamlondonprismaticsargonaut