Updated July 15, released July 14.
Announced through Tim Cook and his team at last month’s Global Developer Conference, Apple’s switch to ARM processors for their Mac computers is now public. In “approximately two years,” the transition will be complete, which is likely to mean that any new MacOS device will have an ARM processor. Intel will still support older devices, but Apple has redefined what it means to be a desktop Mac.
Update july 14. As Apple moves away from Intel, watch the offering and sales of Intel Mac machines, especially MacBook Air and MacBook Pros around the world. Not because of the accumulation of orders of the new MACBook with ARM technology (which is expected to disappear later this year), but also because of the relief of stocks on Intel machines. Darren Allen reports the first symptoms of both.
“… According to DigiTimes, Apple” will particularly increase the amount of MacBook Pro you will order in the third quarter of 2020, and total MacBook submissions are expected to increase by up to 20% through the time of the quarter (depending on the source of the source component sources in the chain).
This will be offset by higher-than-expected sales of Mac machines in the first part of the year; can be characterized by the acceleration of the COVID-19 pandemic of the “work from home” culture.
There is a growing consensus that Apple is only redefining its own product line, but it will bring the Windows 10 ecosystem.
Apple’s first commercial MacOS product on ARM is expected to be a MacBook Pro that will be introduced later this year (developers already have access to a Mac mini powered via the iPad Pro’s A12Z Arm processor for testing). This will consolidate Apple’s new delight with geekerati, and Apple’s hope will be that the average ‘consumer’ who buys new hardware will continue to run all of its favorite and critical apps, while watching longer battery life, lowering temperatures and improving connectivity.
Anyone who pays attention will notice that this first obviously radical MacBook Pro with ARM technology is going to be at the forefront of technology, that it will have startup disorders and that the promise of 100 percent compatibility would probably not be exempt. delay there. But the reaction to the Mac mini-based “Developer Transition Kit” suggests that this MacBook will be much closer to the goal than many think.
Unless there’s a scandal that brings down the entire project, this MacBook Pro will make an undeniable statement. Intel belongs to yesterday, the long term belongs to ARM.
Where does this leave Windows 10? That’s where it’s interesting. Jean-Lous Gassée for Monday Note:
“[Microsoft] or Windows on ARM and will cede the trendy PCs to Apple, or advance, solve application compatibility issues and offer an ARM option to Apple’s new Macs. It’s a false dilemma, of course. Microsoft to advance … impacting the rest of the Windows PC industry. Specifically, what will Dell, HP, Asus, and others do if Apple offers particularly better laptops and desktops and Microsoft continues to improve Windows on ARM Surface devices? “
I don’t think anyone who reads this will assume that the Apple festival might not react. They can’t go all in one and absolutely transfer to ARM-based machines, however, there is likely to be a similar scan of Windows 10 on ARM laptops on sale in 2021 across multiple manufacturers, with more access and mid-range ARM. machines to have in 2022.
Where ARM chips will come from and whether an existing manufacturer needs to have their own ARM chips in one position is another matter.
Microsoft has been running an edition of Windows 10 for ARM, which is on the surface Pro X released late last year, probably overscame Apple to the limit with a modern ARM machine. This is the merit of the first player in terms of customer audience. Looking at the scene, any of the corporations has been running ARM hardware and software for many years, Apple with the iOS platform and Microsoft with Windows Phone and Windows CE and Pocket PC, but the time of small projects and drivers is over.
Apple has indicated its goal of making it transparent to anyone who pays attention to it. ARM is the long term, and Apple is forcing this long term to arrive a little early. This long-term will dominate long-term discussions and plans for the industry. There will have to be a reaction, a reaction that was imposed on the rest of the industry through Apple’s dominant resolution, because the election would mean a defeat in the generational race at ARM.
(… I know, I know, I’m Dad and I’m proud of this pun, okay?)
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