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Frank777
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2018-04-02, 21:22

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Originally Posted by Maciej View Post
I feel they wouldn’t switch all at once. Start at one end of the line, probably low, and work it across. No?
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.
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