He makes a strong case for the transition’s necessity, lays out the benefits for users, details how it’s going to happen, and makes some jokes in the process. If you haven’t ever watched Steve Jobs’ 2005 announcement of the Intel switch for Macs, I highly recommend it. Still, as I remember it everybody knew what to expect, knew it would take a minute, and was so eager for the switch that they were willing to deal with the hassles it caused. Though I’ll admit it’s easy to say that now that the complications of that switch are so far behind us. The forthright and direct way Apple handled the last Mac processor architecture switch - from PowerPC to Intel - went really well. Then we got the excellent Surface Pro X, which still has very aggravating software compatibility gotchas. We watched a generation of pretty bad Windows 10 ARM laptops come out. There’s plenty of time to work out the details, but getting both the rollout and the technical side of this transition right won’t be easy. Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has the confirmation we’ve all be waiting for: Apple will reportedly use a 12-core 5nm ARM processor in a 2021 Mac.
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