christiangeli
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Developer will get crazy from apple to rewrite all app ...wow.
Apple M1-powered Macs set to arrive next week: faster and more efficient
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How many people do you think buy a MacBook Air with the intent to dual boot Windows on it? Very close to zero, which is why the loss of dual-booting is irrelevant in this machine.
I support a lot of Mac users where I work and a single person did that on a MacBook Air and he did that because he likes the design but is a PC user. And after a while he just went back to using it as an OS X-only computer.
Fearghast
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All the MacOS users I personally know of have Bootcamp ready.
Raytrace3D
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About half of the people at my work (over 2000 people) are Mac users who also have to support Windows Users. Everyone runs Bootcamp. I'm a Windows Developer who has to also support Mac sooo... yeah, a know a few people.
I was specifically referring to the MacBook Air because it's a poor choice for using Windows. This is because the power management that Apple bakes into OS X doesn't work very well in Windows and the MBAir kills its smaller battery pretty quickly. My 15" MBPro can at least last a while longer in Win 10 thanks to a much bigger battery and my Mac Mini has no such concerns being wall powered.
But power management in Win 10 on a small battery Mac doesn't make it a very useful computer on the go.
And this is why the MBAir has the best chance of proving whether M1/ARM powered Macs are viable. It takes the things the MBAir is best suited for and optimizes for them. We'll see how the emulation quality or developer adoption for M1/ARM goes over the next year or so.
But power management in Win 10 on a small battery Mac doesn't make it a very useful computer on the go.
And this is why the MBAir has the best chance of proving whether M1/ARM powered Macs are viable. It takes the things the MBAir is best suited for and optimizes for them. We'll see how the emulation quality or developer adoption for M1/ARM goes over the next year or so.
Raytrace3D
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Roger that. Very good points and I absolutely agree with ya. Sadly, the organization I work for literally buys the completely wrong hardware and make it wall powered.. like whatever is the cheapest pile of crap. I have been using a dual core with 8GB's of RAM (which was recently an "upgrade" in their eyes)... I just replaced the battery as it swelled so much that it split the frame and popped the keyboard off. The IT department shipped me a new battery with instructions on how to replace it by my self rather than replace the unit. They are CHEAP.
