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Apple's Shifting Differentiation

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292 points kaboro | 1 comments | 11 Nov 20 13:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source
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Shivetya ◴[11 Nov 20 14:29 UTC] No.25058661[source]▶
Software is the key for me. I am by no means a power user but I really am loathe to give up even more of my software library to swap to Apple Silicon after Catalina cratered my gaming library in Steam and some older apps from companies long gone.

I don't expect I am alone in this observation but the number of software companies they highlighted during the M1 debut was very slim and to be honest I have not heard of half of them until then and don't remember them now.

So to me it matters not how much faster AS is, what matters is if I can run want I want to run. I am not going to own two separate machines to do what I want to do. If AS machines cannot do all I need I will keep my current Mac till support runs out and look again

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freeone3000 ◴[11 Nov 20 14:41 UTC] No.25058768[source]▶
Rosetta 2 allows you to run your x86 mac apps on Apple silicon. It's like the PPC->Intel switch again; your software keeps working regardless of the hardware underneath.
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AnthonyMouse ◴[11 Nov 20 14:51 UTC] No.25058829[source]▶
How is this going to work with games and GPUs?
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1. freeone3000 ◴[11 Nov 20 15:03 UTC] No.25058924[source]▶
Nothing with Apple Silicon has a dedicated GPU, so, about the same. Existing calls to Vulkan and Metal don't need to be translated, the API and software stack are the same on the new hardware.