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Re:ARM processors like A12X are nearing performance parity w... by FavouriteColour on Thursday March 07, 2019 @07:18AM (#19327405)
Yes. I was thinking of third-party software that may take many years to port to ARM. Photoshop, Etc.

Apple’s position would then be: great battery life unless you need to run old intel software.

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Re:ARM processors like A12X are nearing performance parity w... by pjc50 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @07:53AM (#19327596)
Ironically you chose one of the examples that's already been over a porting barrier from a RISC architecture: Photoshop up to (I think) CS4 ran on PowerPC.
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Re:ARM processors like A12X are nearing performance parity w... by ryanpetrich on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:43AM (#19329513)
And since Photoshop has been announced for the iPad, the porting for the architecture-dependent components of it have already been performed.
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