Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops?
by twoodfin on Friday January 10, 2020 @10:41PM
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My guess is a developer-focused supercar of a Macbook. 16 cores, FaceID, maybe OLED?
Jet black, announced for preorder at WWDC. They wouldn’t be able to make enough, and now a boring, disruptive CPU transition is sexy.
There have been some weird rumors out of Asia about a Mac “gaming laptop” that could easily be misinterpreting a product like this.
Also, I think folks ITT are overestimating the difficulty of acceptable performance binary translation (not direct emulation) of x64->AArch64, especially when Apple controls and has experts at every level of the stack. 32-bit apps weren’t de-supported this year just to save some memory.
Jet black, announced for preorder at WWDC. They wouldn’t be able to make enough, and now a boring, disruptive CPU transition is sexy.
There have been some weird rumors out of Asia about a Mac “gaming laptop” that could easily be misinterpreting a product like this.
Also, I think folks ITT are overestimating the difficulty of acceptable performance binary translation (not direct emulation) of x64->AArch64, especially when Apple controls and has experts at every level of the stack. 32-bit apps weren’t de-supported this year just to save some memory.