ARM based Macs: It's back to the future in a way

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I think that with Intel, you always have the problem that they are making general-purpose processors for a market which is predominantly still Windows. It certainly didn’t work to have a non-Intel third party (like IBM or Motorola) making a relatively small number of processors ostensibly more specifically designed for Macs but actually often just stripped down versions of their big iron chips (like the G1/PowerPC 601 or the G5).

Now that Apple is designing (if not actually fabricating) chips for many millions of devices (iPhones+iPads) themselves, it might make sense for them to make a few million more that are specifically designed for laptop/desktop computers (ie Macs).

I guess we’ll see. Should be interesting.