Ansgar to AppleEnglish • 1 year agoHow long will the last Intel Macs be supported? macOS Sonoma gives us some hintsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square42arrow-up196arrow-down10
arrow-up196arrow-down1external-linkHow long will the last Intel Macs be supported? macOS Sonoma gives us some hintsarstechnica.comAnsgar to AppleEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square42
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoThey also dragged their feet switching from PPC to Intel. Something tells me Adobe isn’t using Xcode, where you just flip a switch.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agostuff that’s supposed to be fast might have lots of little bits and pieces here and there written in assembly, for performance. Replacing all that for a new architecture (while ensuring you get the exact same result) takes quite a bit of work
They also dragged their feet switching from PPC to Intel. Something tells me Adobe isn’t using Xcode, where you just flip a switch.
stuff that’s supposed to be fast might have lots of little bits and pieces here and there written in assembly, for performance. Replacing all that for a new architecture (while ensuring you get the exact same result) takes quite a bit of work
still we’re going on 3 years now.