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 work on cross-platform SDKs, and the MAC has been a brilliant platform for this. Windows and Linux inside VMWare don't exactly have stellar performance, although mostly that seems to be an I/O issue, but I can't image this will work anywhere near as well if at all on an ARM-based Mac. It remains to be seen.
Microsoft already have a lot of experience porting Office to ARM, be it for Windows ARM or for mobile devices, so I can't imagine it would take them too long. Apps that will suffer are those with assembly optimisations, e.g. software only video codecs.
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 work on cross-platform SDKs, and the MAC has been a brilliant platform for this. Windows and Linux inside VMWare don't exactly have stellar performance, although mostly that seems to be an I/O issue, but I can't image this will work anywhere near as well if at all on an ARM-based Mac. It remains to be seen.
Microsoft already have a lot of experience porting Office to ARM, be it for Windows ARM or for mobile devices, so I can't imagine it would take them too long. Apps that will suffer are those with assembly optimisations, e.g. software only video codecs.