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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

This is the argument I mentioned before, Intel is using fab tricks to skip ahead in a generation in an attempt to make their atom chips look better, when in reality, they aren't. An equivalently sized arm and intel chip will result in the ARM chip being of superior performance per watt, and even...
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- Post #218
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

Because, Apple regards the PC and the Tablet/Smartphone markets as 2 different issues. They are 2 different markets with 2 different requirements, which is why they never went the way of attempting to merge the 2 like Microsoft has tried. Steve Jobs had likened PCs to trucks, they still will be...
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- Post #211
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

Well, considering how Apple has been cutting down on options of 'high-performance' systems such as in the case of the new mac pro. Apple is clearly not chasing pure performance anymore the way they once did in the 2000s Powermac G5/Mac Pro line-up.
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- Post #210
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

And Apple doesn't really care about Windows, maybe only slightly more than about they do Android. They keep their own ecosystem paramount. Like Steve Jobs said, when he was asked about itunes being a popular windows software, he claimed it was like giving a 'glass of ice water to someone in...
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- Post #208
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

Yes, indeed, Apple is a very different company now, before, Apple would focus on education and professional markets during the 90s, and early 00s, yet now, they are almost entirely consumer focused. Hence, they saw no issues in giving up the xserve or the old mac pro, or making the famous...
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- Post #203
- Jan 16, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

Yeah, that was a typo. With regards to performance, the older-gen Apple A6 chip had already passed the Powerpc G5 in performance, for instance, so it's rapidly catching up to desktop system performance...
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- Post #202
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

Intel Atoms make horrible compromises with regards to performance and energy consumption. This is well-known and a common complaint on intel atom smartphones, for instance. "Jobs mentioned that Intel's projected performance per watt for mid-2006 was over four times higher than that of the Power...
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- Post #200
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

Yes, well, apple was also on m68k chips for about a decade, and then powerpc chips for a decade as well. But like I said, Apple doesn't focus on the mass-market, and never has, why do you think they never made a netbook? They focus on a specific niche the developed, which has found its way...
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- Post #199
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

The switch was in 2006, which is not that long ago. With regards to running 'multiple OSes', that's just a feature of having an intel processor, but that's not the reason why Apple switched to intel, Apple switched as a result of intel have a lower performance per watt vs. Powerpc, and now ARM...
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- Post #191
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

Because, Apple has done this architecture switch before, and it did catch many people off-guard. With regards to all the complaints, if some organizations invested so heavily and optimized their software for x86 using assembly code and assume that their software will continue to run on macs...
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- Post #188
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

Well, that is something for Apple to determine. Remember, Apple has always positioned itself at the higher end of the market, they're not interested in competing with generic brands. If they feel they can provide advantages for their ecosystem with arm, not only in terms of margins, but also in...
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- Post #186
- Jan 16, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

It is unlikely that Apple will maintain support for 2 different archs at the same time, otherwise it could risk going the way of the WinRT fiasco, and software fragmentation. Remember, Apple hates the idea of fragmentation.
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- Post #183
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

Apple simply does not sell commodity hardware to 'run windows and OS X', Apple sells an ecosystem, plenty of people were on the apple ecosystem even without x86 support, historically. Also, it becomes a question of margins from apple's perspective. Apple doesn't compete on volume, they compete...
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- Post #182
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

ARM is already a primary architecture for distros like Fedora. Ubuntu also supports it. As mass-market arm hardware becomes more available, people will have more of an incentive to develop arm distros. Same thing happened with PPC, when ppc was in the mass-market, you had every major distro...
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- Post #179
- Jan 16, 2015
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[AppleInsider] Apple may abandon Intel for its Macs starting with post-Broadwell

People will run on whatever works. For instance, back when apple was on powerpc, the top distros all had ppc supported as a primary architecture. The software issue is not significant, because all the open-source software can and has been recompiled over many architectures. And, of course, java...
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- Post #177
- Jan 16, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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