In other words, when you buy a Mac now, it is obsolete within 2 years. This means: not only no support from Apple, but every other 3rd party software developer stops making Intel based software for Intel Macs too, because the new platform is simply Apple Silicon. This is also why I advise against 2nd hand Macs older than 3 years, because you buy unsupported hardware.Īpple announced that they will shorten the typical support cycle from 3 to 2 years for Intel based Macs. Using an Apple after that period of time on the internet is VERY RISKY. Well, we have a bit of a dilemma when we want to buy a new Mac.Īpple’s typical lifecycle of a product is 3 years.Īfter 3 years, they stop with software updates, including important security updates (there are some exceptions with extreme vulnerabilities). We have Rosetta 2 to run Intel based programs, and we have universal binaries (a computer program that is compiled for 2 types of processors).īut where does that leaves us as music producers? The M1 runs iPhone and iPad apps natively, because it is basically the same processor. Now Apple switched to their own ARM implementation for the Mac, they call it: M1. I’ve tried it, but I couldn’t get any software working with Rosetta. In theory you could run a PowerPC program on an Intel CPU. They provided a translation from PowerPC to Intel, called Rosetta. Which didn’t go quite as smoothly as they promised. You can’t run a program from one architecture on another.Īpple switched before from PowerPC to Intel.
It’s like talking French to an English person.
They have engineers, the have the supply chain, they have designed the product and can now pocket all the money that they otherwise would give to Intel.ĭifferent processor architectures are highly incompatible with each other. It made absolutely no sense for Apple not use it in their Macs too. What does that mean for us Music Producers?Īlthough ARM has been around a long time, it is only the last 10 years or so that it caught on in mobile phones and tablets.Īpple bought a license a started producing their own processors for their iPhones. Written by: Dexxter Clark Apple released their first Apple Silicon Macs.
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