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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by whywhywhywhy on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:52AM (#23599200)
> The iPad Pro already beats the Macbook Pro in some well-known benchmarks, such as Geekbench.

We keep hearing this especially from the Apple-bubble blogs, yet why does it not translate into higher end work being done on these iPads if they are supposedly so powerful, yet all we ever see is digital painting work that isn't pushing it at all and extremely basic video editing.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by fit2rule on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:35AM (#23599984)
iPad-using musicians, synth-nerds and audio hackers are having a BLAST with the high-end iPads, I can tell that much ..
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by nojito on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:53AM (#23599603)
You’re essentially downplaying a huge percentage of people doing real work.
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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by sheeshkebab on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:14AM (#23599344)
it’s bc of iOS and AppStore. No serious dev will port their desktop apps to that.

Also good luck to Apple if they lock down macOS the same way.

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by delfinom on Monday June 22, 2020 @10:02AM (#23600281)
>Also good luck to Apple if they lock down macOS the same way.

They are locking down macOS gradually. Their hardware revenue is declining indefinitely and they know it. Their push is to lock down the software and reap a cut as much as they can.

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