I use my 2019 MacBook Pro for all my development these days. For things like Node.js or Java or Python and other high-level language and IDE stuff the switch to ARM probably won't make much difference.
But I also rely on a Parallels VM environment to run Windows and Linux VMs. My development target is sometimes those platforms and I need to bench test. Sometimes I have Windows-only applications like Solidworks. (Come to think of it what about the Microsoft Office suite? Are they on-board with migrati
Microsoft already has Office ready to go, they showed it off at the event. They also showed it running a linux VM but I don't have the details on it. As for emulation, at least for Mac software, it looks impressive performance wise. They demoed Tomb Raider and Maya both running the intel binaries, and they ran really well. And that's on the dev kit processor, which is the SOC from the current iPad Pro (although I'm sure it's been clocked up to take advantage of the additional cooling in the dev kit Mac mini they used.)
I'll be hanging on to x86 Mac for a while (Score:4, Interesting)
I use my 2019 MacBook Pro for all my development these days. For things like Node.js or Java or Python and other high-level language and IDE stuff the switch to ARM probably won't make much difference.
But I also rely on a Parallels VM environment to run Windows and Linux VMs. My development target is sometimes those platforms and I need to bench test. Sometimes I have Windows-only applications like Solidworks. (Come to think of it what about the Microsoft Office suite? Are they on-board with migrati
Re:I'll be hanging on to x86 Mac for a while (Score:3)