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Apple to Announce its own Mac Processor at WWDC (Late June)

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Well, ladies and gentlemen, to those that have been predicting this change for years (and not for, say, two weeks), hats off to you! :laugh:
 
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Well close to a decade now & my reason was simple ~ margins! Admittedly though the iPhone, then iPad, Mac & services boom pushed Apple to delay the transition but I'm nearly 100% sure if say this pandemic hit last year or the year before Apple would most certainly have moved quicker & the transition, to ARM, would probably be over by now :toast:
 
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I personally didn't have any opinion on whether Apple would actually do it or not, although I did think that Apple had the financials and a suitable motive (more control over the ecosystem) to do it, should they choose to do so. That's half the battle, the other half being the market (both users and developers) and having qualified engineers and other staff/personnel to pull off a design/product that meets the desired goals.
 
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I personally didn't have any opinion on whether Apple would actually do it or not, although I did think that Apple had the financials and a suitable motive (more control over the ecosystem) to do it, should they choose to do so. That's half the battle, the other half being the market (both users and developers) and having qualified engineers and other staff/personnel to pull off a design/product that meets the desired goals.
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They claim 50-100% faster than the Intel supplied chip; with no supply delays, no design limitations set by Intel, and 40-50% cheaper.
 
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They didn't say all of that, unless you meant some edge cases like browsing on the latest Safari?
 
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