If Apple goes thru with this, I will stop buying macbook pros for myself and stop my employer from buying them. That would be roughly 4000 purchases every 3 years.
If Apple goes thru with this, I will stop buying macbook pros for myself and stop my employer from buying them. That would be roughly 4000 purchases every 3 years.
Perhaps you could explain your reasoning? Abandoning the OS would be far more difficult for most people than abandoning the underlying CPU architecture.
There are some pretty obvious downsides that have been made public already. No bootcamp. No native VMs. Having to re-buy all the existing applications. That's on top of all the other negative changes that have been made to Mac laptops over the last several years like non-upgradeable memory and SSDs, the touchbar, the butterfly keyboard (which they reversed after THREE YEARS of it being apparent what a clusterfuck it is). From a software side the OS is pretty damn locked down, can't install third party drive
Why do you have to re-buy existing applications? I use the Apple media suite (Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro) and I 100% expect to just be able to sign into my account on a future ARM machine and continue using them. I expect other apps like Ableton to allow me to transfer my license to a new machine as well.
I'm out... (Score:3, Interesting)
If Apple goes thru with this, I will stop buying macbook pros for myself and stop my employer from buying them. That would be roughly 4000 purchases every 3 years.
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If Apple goes thru with this, I will stop buying macbook pros for myself and stop my employer from buying them. That would be roughly 4000 purchases every 3 years.
Perhaps you could explain your reasoning? Abandoning the OS would be far more difficult for most people than abandoning the underlying CPU architecture.
uh, no bootcamp? (Score:1)
There are some pretty obvious downsides that have been made public already. No bootcamp. No native VMs. Having to re-buy all the existing applications. That's on top of all the other negative changes that have been made to Mac laptops over the last several years like non-upgradeable memory and SSDs, the touchbar, the butterfly keyboard (which they reversed after THREE YEARS of it being apparent what a clusterfuck it is). From a software side the OS is pretty damn locked down, can't install third party drive
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Re:uh, no bootcamp? (Score:5, Insightful)
Hoping whatever AU plugins you use come over as easily too.