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
I can imagine an emulation mode working but I can't imagine it would be very fast. I wouldn't buy a new system to go backwards in performance.
While they obviously would pick something that works well for the announcement - the demo of an x86 Tomb Raider game running on their A12Z-based Mac was quite impressive. As was the similar demo of x86 Maya.
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:2)
I can imagine an emulation mode working but I can't imagine it would be very fast. I wouldn't buy a new system to go backwards in performance.
While they obviously would pick something that works well for the announcement - the demo of an x86 Tomb Raider game running on their A12Z-based Mac was quite impressive. As was the similar demo of x86 Maya.