Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Nov 2012 23:40 UTC
Another Apple-to-switch-Macs-to-ARM post. "Apple engineers have grown confident that the chip designs used for its mobile devices will one day be powerful enough to run its desktops and laptops, said three people with knowledge of the work, who asked to remain anonymous because the plans are confidential. Apple began using Intel chips for Macs in 2005." No idea when Apple will make the switch, but they will do it. I'm thinking 5-10 year timeframe.
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BTW I think that the PRO line must stay with intel. ARM doesn't have enough power to virtualize Windows for example.
And how would you virtualize Windows on ARM in the first place, unless Windows comes out with a consumer-purchasable ARM version? You couldn't virtualize X86 Windows on ARM, you would have to outright emulate the X86 architecture. This would be extremely slow no matter how you slice it; anyone remember Virtual PC for PPC Macs?
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by adkilla on Tue 6th Nov 2012 11:27
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RE[2]: It would be nice...
by henderson101 on Tue 6th Nov 2012 12:09
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Well... http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=12727 ... nothing is impossible.
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by mistersoft on Wed 7th Nov 2012 18:34
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Yes of course Windows won't run under emulation or other under any ARM Mac,
I think it would ..loong term, be incredibly foolish for Apple to jump *wholesale* in the Arm computing world.
We came to know that x86 and PPC version of OS X were developed side by side for a long while before Apple switch to x86 machines
And I'd find it very likely that they would do the same with x86 and ARM were they to make a switch again,
...only this time I would expect x86 machines to, at the very least, remain as the powerful processor of choice on their top end Mac Pro machines -presuming they still exist in a few years time. But I'd hold the same hope for other machines within the desktop line up, leaving ARM if it happens on perhaps the "non-pro" laptops and the tablets.
I don't see multi-core ARM CPUs eclipsing multi-core low voltage x86 CPUs (even if terms of power per W, let alone raw FLOPS and MIPS for) ...for well over 5 years, maybe 10 years.
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The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?
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Macbook Air with 12 hours or 15 hours of battery time... I'd love it.
BTW I think that the PRO line must stay with intel. ARM doesn't have enough power to virtualize Windows for example.