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
Which should come as no surprise to anyone who remembers that Windows RT was a thing. Also Adobe is now very much in a different place then it used to be. It got bitten hard by the previous transition with several versions of it's suite not available on Mac kind of forever tarnishing Mac as the creator's platform of choice. But people were equally pissed at Adobe at the time, so they learnt a bit from the last transition.
Windows RT died a few years back (updates stopped in 2015, standard support stopped in 2018), but Microsoft has had Windows 10 running on ARM since 2016. It's ostensibly the full version of Windows 10, and it even includes an emulation layer that attempts to run x86 apps in a way that appears to be native to the user. From what I hear (I have not used it, but I started looking into it yesterday after Apple's announcements, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt), it's okay, but it sounds like it runs
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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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Re:I'll be hanging on to x86 Mac for a while (Score:2)
Which should come as no surprise to anyone who remembers that Windows RT was a thing. Also Adobe is now very much in a different place then it used to be. It got bitten hard by the previous transition with several versions of it's suite not available on Mac kind of forever tarnishing Mac as the creator's platform of choice. But people were equally pissed at Adobe at the time, so they learnt a bit from the last transition.
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Windows RT died a few years back (updates stopped in 2015, standard support stopped in 2018), but Microsoft has had Windows 10 running on ARM since 2016. It's ostensibly the full version of Windows 10, and it even includes an emulation layer that attempts to run x86 apps in a way that appears to be native to the user. From what I hear (I have not used it, but I started looking into it yesterday after Apple's announcements, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt), it's okay, but it sounds like it runs