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
We all felt the same way when we purchased G5 mac-pro's and they switched to intel a couple of years later.
The nice thing is that it took a solid 2-3 years before powerpc was no longer viable after the switch. If you can get 4-5 years out of your current macbook pro before 'having' to switch, that is a pretty solid investment; especially since you can still run windows/linux/etc on the current hardware.
I can see the 'switch' to ARM taking a bit longer this time around mainly because there are a lot of
Apple said they will be selling Intel Macs for years to come. Also I think the transition to ARM won't be like the transition to Intel. There was little reason for PowerPC once Intel was available. The places where a G5 had an advantage were too highly specialized. In contrast an Intel Mac has the advantage of a single machine that can natively boot macOS or Windows. Mac market shared doubled once people no longer had to choose Mac or PC, once they could have one machine with both. I think this will give Intel based Macs a longer tail than PowerPC Macs had.
For those of you thinking emulation / virtualization... that works so well today because the CPU is intel. No translation of the CPU architecture is necessary. On an ARM Mac that will once again become necessary, recall running Windows on PowerPC doable but painful. I think Rosetta2 needs an Intel Mac app, an Intel Windows app and Windows itself won't be translated.
I remember the transition from a G5 PPC to Intel. The G5 running Tiger was amazing. The Intel running 10.5 was not. The G5 running 10.5 was also not good either. CS2 running in Rosetta was unstable and prone to trashing production files. 10.6 was an "apology" OS released at a discount price that focussed on stability by ditching PPC support in total.
Today's MacOS I don't think has the engineering quality behind it that 10.4 did. Day to day I see stuff that is just short sighted design, removing stable and p
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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
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Apple selling Intel Macs for years to come (Score:2)
For those of you thinking emulation / virtualization
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I remember the transition from a G5 PPC to Intel. The G5 running Tiger was amazing. The Intel running 10.5 was not. The G5 running 10.5 was also not good either. CS2 running in Rosetta was unstable and prone to trashing production files. 10.6 was an "apology" OS released at a discount price that focussed on stability by ditching PPC support in total.
Today's MacOS I don't think has the engineering quality behind it that 10.4 did. Day to day I see stuff that is just short sighted design, removing stable and p