Current Events > Apple switching Mac to ARM CPUs is anti-consumer

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DarkRoast
06/29/20 3:40:13 PM
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Granted it'll be spun as the opposite, but as anyone who had a Mac in the PowerPC days will tell you, it makes interoperability with Windows files a clusterfuck and everything designed for Mac becomes substantially more expensive.

It also will give far more control to Apple when it comes to making MacOS a walled garden.

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Reis
06/29/20 3:40:53 PM
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Apple is anti-consumer

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The23rdMagus
06/29/20 3:41:20 PM
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I have concerns but we'll see how it plays out. I don't think I had "Rosetta" on my WWDC Bingo card.

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Giant_Aspirin
06/29/20 3:41:43 PM
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because apple is anti-consumer.

DarkRoast posted...
everything designed for Mac becomes substantially more expensive.

and apple gets more money. see how that works?

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DarkRoast
06/29/20 3:45:48 PM
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The23rdMagus posted...
I have concerns but we'll see how it plays out. I don't think I had "Rosetta" on my WWDC Bingo card.

Rosetta ran pre-OSX code on OSX (basically Linux/UNIX).

Software emulation to run x86 code on ARM and presumably vice versa is going to incur a massive performance hit.

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The23rdMagus
06/29/20 3:48:17 PM
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DarkRoast posted...
Rosetta ran pre-OSX code on OSX (basically Linux/UNIX).

Software emulation to run x86 code on ARM and presumably vice versa is going to incur a massive performance hit.
Agreed. We'll see how the optimization goes.

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Squall28
06/29/20 3:48:24 PM
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Reis posted...
Apple is anti-consumer


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KamenRiderBlade
06/29/20 4:42:24 PM
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Maybe you should speak with your $$$ and purchasing decisions.

Don't buy Apple products, no matter how nice they may seem.

Recommend to your friends & family members to stop buying Apple.

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DarkRoast
06/29/20 5:03:33 PM
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KamenRiderBlade posted...
Maybe you should speak with your $$$ and purchasing decisions.

Don't buy Apple products, no matter how nice they may seem.

Recommend to your friends & family members to stop buying Apple.

I absolutely loved MacBooks until they came out with the butterfly keyboard, and refuse to buy one until they went back. Unfortunately, by the time they went back, I had already returned to Windows.

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treewojima
06/29/20 5:06:57 PM
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what sucks is that macOS is a very nice *nix workstation OS with only a few simple add-ons like MacPorts
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Questionmarktarius
06/29/20 5:13:16 PM
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It's never been a secret that Apple has wanted to merge macOS with iOS, and changing to ARM will facilitate that.
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