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Originally Posted by Maciej
I feel they wouldn’t switch all at once. Start at one end of the line, probably low, and work it across. No?
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The rumours about switching have been going for years now. If there's now a definitive decision to move, it's because they are highly confident that the high-end chip prototypes they've been working on will scale nicely in comparison to Intel. Apple keeps the Mac alive to sell millions of high-end iMacs and MacBook Pros. Protecting those high-margin sales would be their first priority.
As a matter of fact, who's to say the high-end version of the A12 isn't ready to go this fall
and will be first?
We are expecting a new Mac Pro at WWDC this year, aren't we? Is it more like Apple to introduce a new signature machine with an eye to the future and some speed compromises, or one with a dead-end architecture and two-year shelf life?
It can't be coincidence that this news has broken free of the mothership just as
Thunderbolt has gone royalty-free, and with just 60+ days until WWDC seminars.