In fact the M1 is so fast that the Rosetta 2 performance hit is small enough that many users of upgrading from Intel Mac

The other markets AMD and Intel compete against ARM on will be handled by other companies such as Amazon making the Graviton 2 ARM chips or Ampere’s 80-core ARM-based 64-bit server processor.

My key issue with my Mac Pro is actually not performance, but rather the number of USB ports and non-standard SSD disk which is not that easy to replace, without a special kit.

Countless software companies already have both an iOS and a macOS version of their software. They naturally use a lot of code sharing. With SwiftUI they are getting close to merging the iOS and macOS world.

It will be interesting to watch in the next weeks or months as benchmarks for the new Macs pop up. There will be a lot of surprised people. But don’t worry people will still dismiss Apple. They will complain about 16 GB RAM being too little for professionals and that the number for ports are too few (which annoys me too). Sure we would all like the option of more RAM and ports. But that does not change the exceptional advancement Apple has been making with Apple Silicon over the years.

A lot has happened since those days. Software for the Mac is to a larger extent developed in Xcode, we got more software distributed as LLVM bitcode. Software simply is not as tied to an architecture as strongly as when the PowerPC to Intel transition happened.

Many will be happy to know that important applications for professionals such as Adobe Photoshop and MS Office has already been ported. Other professional tools such as Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher have also been ported.

Some people will cling to the fact that AMD still has a performance edge, but for how long? AMD had a much smaller gap to close to surpass Intel in performance. Apple had a much faster progression. The ARM world is simply moving a lot faster and x86 is living on borrowed time.

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It would be very surprising if the Intel to ARM transition was less smooth than PowerPC to Intel. After all Apple has years of experience with ARM through iPad and iPhone which runs very similar software. iOS is really just a flavor of macOS. The libraries, tools, programming languages and everything else is very similar. Going from developing Mac software to iOS software was not a big transition. At isapplesiliconready.com we can keep up to date on what software has currently been ported to Apple Silicon.

Apple has a clear edge here as they don’t need to spend money developing lots of architectures. They can focus on making chips for their limited selection of products. Apple has tons of money they can throw at a very limited set of of chip designs.

I went through the PowerPC to Intel transition and I got to say that went surprisingly smooth. But it is important to keep in mind what your expectations are. As a software developer I know how hard this kind of things is. If you expect absolutely everything to work flawlessly from day one, then your experience will be different. I have seen people describe the PowerPC to Intel transition as hell, but that tends to be people with a rather naive view of what a transition entails. Day one can be rough if you use a wide variety of non-Apple software, but the point is that things improved rapidly.

EDIT: If you are more interested in this, I have a new article (unpolished) out discussing technical details of why the M1 is so fast as well as comparison to AMD. I may revise my view here as M1 seems to be far ahead of AMD as well.

I see this as the key problem with the new ARM based Macs: Too few ports. It is not clear to me whether the harddrive can be changed. But these kinds of things seems to be what we have simply have had to put up with when it comes to Apple. Personally I still dream of a return to the old beatiful G4 towers.

There is nothing inherently superior about the x86 architecture which suggests it should stay ahead performance-wise for all future. Quite the contrary ARM has an ISA which is better suited to make a high performance architecture. Eventually this will be a numbers game. Both Intel and AMD will be facing an army of ARM makers, they cannot beat all of them in the long run. And typically the winner will be whoever can throw most cash at the problem.

After a late-night out, I hail down a taxi. It takes me just a few minutes to get a driver to stop. I don’t understand why my black friends complain that it takes them forever to get home after a late night out.