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Originally Posted by OtinG
I was only talking about desktops. No one I have ever known has built their own laptop from scratch. 
Switching to ARM-based processors screws up legacy software, means fewer apps available for Mac initially and perhaps forever, and means you can kiss goodbye the ability to run Windows in Bootcamp. Personally, I’m too bleeping old and won’t have enough years left to see enough usable software be rewritten for those new processors if Apple chooses to go that route. I’ll switch, very reluctantly, and with a great amount of anger towards Apple for making me have to switch from a system that works as is. I don’t have time to wait for apps to be updated, and many will never be updated, nor a desire to wait. Those apps are mostly available on Windows now, so I will switch to Windows rather than the new Apple chips. My hope is they will screw up the development of their in-house processors and have to abandon this idea. |
I would imagine that, like their switch to Intel in the first place, that the Operating System will include an emulation layer to continue running older software for a few years. It won’t be perfect, and Mac gamers will suffer particularly (as if Apple hasn’t made them suffer enough already), but it will ease users through the rough patch.