I think Motorola will the first choice.
Lots of nothing except that says that Apple expects to replace hardware with a 18 month cycle.
If you need Parallels for X86 Apps you need an Intel Mac.
No matter how hot or noisy.
(How could we ever survive with Intel Macs from 2006-2020?)
BTW,
I personally do not need such Apps … …
BTW 2,
I think, beside BA forum participants, there are lots of Apple Users
not caring a … about if macOS runs on Power PC, X86_64, Apple ARM,
or a steam engine,
as long as their familiar Apps still work.
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Actually, you don’t. Parallels runs the ARM version of Windows, which supports x86 programs, similar to how Rosetta 2 works.
ah yeah I probably need to update the drivers on the laptop. However as you said, I don’t think rendering time will change that much, but thanks for the tip! 
yeah most say M2 Max for 2023 which makes sense.
Never going back… I knew from the third day of owning my M1 Mini around this time last year, and it basically out performing my two and a half year old high-end and much more expensive iMac in every way, that the SOC is the way of the future, not just for Apple but everyone. I literally commented out loud, “huh, Apple did it.”
If you don’t own one of these machines it’s hard to believe how insanely well they perform with such little power draw. Most people just don’t believe us.
This isn’t “fanboying”, and kind of seems obvious for all manufactures that X86 days are numbered. How long it takes for X86 to completely die is anyones guys cause of the folks that hate giving up legacy formats. But this goes for anyone, feel free to call me out on this in 6 years if it hasn’t progressed. 
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I wouldn’t go quite that far, but it probably is the end of x86 as we currently know it.
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There’s a bug in blender that blocks us loading usd libraries on Mac
I think this will be a long long time even if
Gamers and office work is a big industry. Office work does not like change. As long as Microsoft does not like Apple push for ARM the rest of the chain has no incentive to switch.
I am acutely rather guessing not in the next ten twenty years.
AMD and Intel will tinker on their chips as usual and adding more cores etc to deliver the computational power needed or like Intel now add low power draw cores for less intensive tasks.
I would be really surprised if amd and Intel who own the pc market would feel compelled to change.
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Yes, but if you buy a special $50 edition of the cleaning cloth, wiping your screen with that will magically bring back your cursor.
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I’ll probably go with the $150 Pro Max cleaning cloth. I hear it has more megahertz.
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Well said, probably never as long as there is an OS that runs on it.
I am thinking of buying an old 68080 based computer, because why not and it will run Amiga stuff near natively. Well old architecture new cpu.
Nothing never dies really, there will just be a smaller user base.
Also Windows will probably never do what OSX did and even if they did there still was Linux 
Well ok Windows did kinda with win 11 but oh well.
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Actually, Microsoft was trying to push for ARM as well for the past 9 years (Microsoft RT, Microsoft 10 on ARM, Surface PRO X), it’s just that it’s nowhere near the M1 “everything on one chip” design, and it shows…
NVIDIA is also aiming for some ARM CPUs (whether the ARM deal happens or not).
So it boils down to AMD & Intel.
Yes the all want to apparently but does not mean x86 will die nor that arm is superior for everything.
The Arm attempt from MS was a joke they should have made their own chip and not a modded snapdragon.
What is the status as far as stability and reliability of 3.1? I’ve ben planning to hold off installing it until Bcon 2 which is coming up in a week. My understanding is that it requires Monterey? That kinda stinks since I’m not planning on updating my main workstation for quite some time (this is due to the other software I use like AVID, Adobe, etc.); so if that’s the case I can really only test the new Metal improvements on my Mac Book Air.
Yeah, I’m curious what will happen if NVIDIA gets the ARM deal. Will Apple work with them again?
Not sure if it actually does bit I got now way to confirm that.
Personally I think it would be better if they don’t get the deal. I am more scared what happens if they do.
As they then hold the IP and could cause a lot of trouble for everyone not just apple.
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Yes true I forgot - but as stated their ARM attempts were trimmed down windows versions.
Apple has the ability to run Intel apps on the ARM chip.
True at that time also the ARM chips in general were not that great yet.
But for the hardware change to happened Windows as the main OS and all the software developers have to support the push and I cannot see Microsoft doing what Apple does.
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