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Apple Mac Computers to Abandon Intel Processors

February 25, 2019

According to a report by Axios, Apple is expected to move its Mac line of computers to custom ARM‑based chips as soon as next year. Apple hasn’t made an official announcement to confirm or deny the move away from Intel. According to Axios:

  • Bloomberg offered a bit more specificity on things in a report on Wednesday, saying that the first ARM-based Macs could come in 2020, with plans to offer developers a way to write a single app that can run across iPhones, iPads and Macs by 2021.
  • The first hints of the effort came last year when Apple offered a sneak peek at its plan to make it easier for developers to bring iPad apps to the Mac.

I believe that one of the best decisions Apple ever made was to use Intel processors in Macs. It allowed a Mac computer to natively run the Windows OS. Switching to a custom ARM-based processor is probably going to drive a lot of people away. Apple may not like it, but there are a heck of a lot more people using Windows than macOS.

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