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A comment on Ask HN: Should I buy an Intel MacBook now, or wait for an ARM version?.

Re:Ask HN: Should I buy an Intel MacBook now, or wait for an... by noah-kun on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:46PM (#23618392)
On point "a", Rosetta 2 will work perfectly if Rosetta 1 is any indication.

On point "b", the "first version" of the hardware was over 10 years ago.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I buy an Intel MacBook now, or wait for an... by Someone on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:28PM (#23619003)
I would think the overlap between Rosetta 1 and Rosetta 2 is effectively zero, even when including engineers who worked on both as “overlap”. It’s 16 years ago, and Apple bought significant parts of the original Rosetta from a third party that now is part of IBM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit)

So, I wouldn’t use the quality of Rosetta 1 as an indicator for the quality of Rosetta 2.

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