Is anyone making a computer for hackers and creatives? I have a bad feeling about Apple switching to arm....
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The move to ARM-64 means that a huge number of x86 apps will have to be ported or run in some kind of emulation/virtualization layer. It's also possible that Apple locks down the compiler tools, or makes the chipset more proprietary over time. Think App Store for desktops.
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The trending economics is that it's much cheaper to fabricate customized electronics. Projects like RISC-V are open sourcing PC platforms. But it's also inexpensive to create proprietary hardware. Apple's ARM-64 platform could result in iOS-like locked-down laptops.
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ARM Macs won’t have BootCamp or other benefits from the Wintel ecosystem. Hardware will be as locked down as iPads — but really that’s just how ARM works, there’s no vendor-independent standards like x86 BIOS.
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Pauli is exactly right... I'm also thinking if ARM takes over servers it'll be less of a big deal... But as it stands now I can imagine a lot of things that are less compatible than now with x86 everywhere.
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Wasn’t Apple ARM based in the past?
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