Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!kreme.dont-email.me!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lewis Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.portables,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc Subject: Re: Who is going to buy the first Arm (M1) MacBooks? Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:26:26 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Miskatonic U Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <121120201421024996%nospam@nospam.invalid> <0VyrH.145047$Ml5.103301@fx24.iad> <131120202006318871%nospam@nospam.invalid> <141120200829123845%nospam@nospam.invalid> <141120201347026442%nospam@nospam.invalid> <9AWrH.329952$9r7.277473@fx07.iad> Reply-To: g.kreme@gmail.don-t-email-me.com Injection-Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:26:26 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: kreme.dont-email.me; posting-host="61e0f940fbf00988e32ccc88bc72406e"; logging-data="31305"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19AcJjjXKLCIeo7dR8GWuPN" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2uVWasU1x7LMq0f7b2OpCkmsaIc= X-Face: )^b5"R:T7U>9~:PEn3YkzMfW*[b1qKeU.fP9C8~8HpU9}lA&6`bH1z X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Mail-Copies-To: nobody Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:134931 comp.sys.mac.portables:1415 comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc:2185 In message <9AWrH.329952$9r7.277473@fx07.iad> JF Mezei wrote: > On 2020-11-14 13:47, nospam wrote: >>> An you think they simply recompiled the 68000 code for Intel Are ou >>> really that daft? >> >> do you really need to ask? > Argument was made that Adobe had to rewrite large parts because they > were in 8086 assembly. I counterred that Adobe already had multi platfor > support in the past. And it tok them forever to update then too. When did they finally have an intel-native Mac App? And keep in mind, they already had ALL their software running on Intel. Adobe is slow. Always has been. > So they can rewrite parts for ARM if they want to. Eventually. Honestly, "net year" is lightning speed for Adobe. > But it does show that it isn't just a simple recompile. It is for many many developers and many many apps. Adobe goes to great lengths to do their own thing, and that means the do not benefit from many of the things Apple does to make transitions seamless. Omni, all app on day one for M1. Affinity, all apps on M1 on one. Adobe and Microsoft? Eh, some day next year probably. Google? 2027 for anything not Chrome. -- "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "Umm, I think so, Don Cerebro, but, umm, why would Sophia Loren do a musical?"