Virtual machines like Fusion, Parallels, and VirtualBox remain up in the air. Performance on these, if mediocre now in Intel Rosetta 2 emulation, will undoubted get substantially better as their developers release updates. Others, like Photoshop and Fusion 360 - both mentioned in the Apple event - will either be ported to the new processor or be emulated.
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Some, like the Apple-developed juggernaut Final Cut Pro X, should perform exceptionally well. All that remains true after the Apple announcement.īig questions remain about how individual programs perform on the new M1. I also spoke about Apple's impressive track record of previous processor replacements in Macs. I talked previously about all the things that can go wrong in an architecture lift-and-shift. With high-performance and efficiency workload cores, with a deep commitment to on-silicon machine learning, and with an onboard GPU that shows some potential, this could be an architecture that leaves Intel behind. The M1 is an all-Apple design based on their mobile chips and the Arm architecture. Instead, our subject is the new CPU Apple introduced at this week's Apple Event. No, we're not talking about the money supply or a tank (other common uses of "M1").
Apple's M1 chip launch raised more questions than it answered.