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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by panpanna on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:10AM (#23598712)
> Mac ARM laptops mean cloud ARM VMs.

Why do you think that? Cloud means linux, apple does not even have a server OS anymore.

We are seeing some ARM devices entering the server space, but these have been in progress for ears and have absolutely nothing to do with apples (supposed) CPU switch.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:12AM (#23598721)
Why do you think developers don't run Linux VMs on macOS laptops?
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by imglorp on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:23AM (#23598763)
They absolutely do.

One reason is to get the same environment they get in a cloud deployment scaled down. Another is Apple keeps messing with compatibility, most recent example being the code signing thing slowing down script executions.

Edit, this includes docker on Mac: it's not native.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by ekianjo on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:29AM (#23599088)
When they run Docker that's precisely what they do...
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