![]() ![]() Although few current Apple staff are likely to have been working for the company during either of those, there’s still corporate knowledge of how to make such changes. Macs have changed processor architectures twice now: from Motorola 68K to PowerPC in 1994, and from PowerPC to Intel x86 in 2005-06. If it does launch a new range of ARM-powered Macs, it will want them to be first and foremost a success, and very popular with both new and existing users. Selling a Mac directly aimed at the iPad Pro market, or one which couldn’t run most Mac software, would be a very big mistake, and I’m sure that Apple realises that. Before going any further remind yourself that Apple is commercially very successful, and what it wants of any new product is for it to sell, without wiping out other major products. Some have taken the opportunity to make all sorts of wild claims, such as ARM Macs being little more than iPad Pros, only running software supplied from the App Store, and worse. This article looks at some of the issues which we might face if this turns out to be true – and I stress that, no matter how strong or ‘reliable’, until Apple announces anything these are no more than rumours. I’m therefore completely unsurprised at the strong rumours that Apple is preparing to announce them in ten days time at the start of WWDC 2020. ![]() I speculated about Apple developing Macs based on ARM processors over a year ago, and showed some controversial performance comparisons here. ![]()
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