As a developer I'm buying an 16" Macbook right now, but I'm in pretty yolo mode, for all we know, 2021 might never come - While buying a new device should be fun, I feel very dreadful
I think the future is cheap arm devices, but I don't think Apple would make any of your dreams come true - Apple's strategy seems to make us suffer, sell us devices that's destined to become obsolete, and milk us - It could all be very joyful, and honestly I'd spend 2x more money than I do now if they just delivered good hardware, rather than timebombs
Maintaining a running Macbook is costing me $100+ a month, so I switched most of my 24/7 stuff to a $70 Raspberry PI running ARM - it's fanless, it's silent, it's cool and it's cool, I love it
Best part of the ARM revolution would be the move to devices like this: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/
Cheap, versatile, easily replaceable, fun
As developers, we are moving towards simplification, I'm personally doing everything with Node and Javascript now, so whether it's a server side code, client code, personal code, it's all interoperable - works on any device you can imagine - so moving away from x86 would be a breeze for me personally
However, I believe the gaming industry is always the bottleneck - so a swift worldwide switch to ARM won't be possible :/ For this reason, I suspect, and as everyone suspects, we'll get the first taste of end-computing ARM with regular Macbook's first - and in 2-3 years, when the ecosystem has made a port of everything, it'll be possible to switch to ARM fully
I hope I get a joyful 2 years out of my new x86 Macbook Pro and I look forward to an ARM future
I think the future is cheap arm devices, but I don't think Apple would make any of your dreams come true - Apple's strategy seems to make us suffer, sell us devices that's destined to become obsolete, and milk us - It could all be very joyful, and honestly I'd spend 2x more money than I do now if they just delivered good hardware, rather than timebombs
Maintaining a running Macbook is costing me $100+ a month, so I switched most of my 24/7 stuff to a $70 Raspberry PI running ARM - it's fanless, it's silent, it's cool and it's cool, I love it
Best part of the ARM revolution would be the move to devices like this: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/
Cheap, versatile, easily replaceable, fun
As developers, we are moving towards simplification, I'm personally doing everything with Node and Javascript now, so whether it's a server side code, client code, personal code, it's all interoperable - works on any device you can imagine - so moving away from x86 would be a breeze for me personally
However, I believe the gaming industry is always the bottleneck - so a swift worldwide switch to ARM won't be possible :/ For this reason, I suspect, and as everyone suspects, we'll get the first taste of end-computing ARM with regular Macbook's first - and in 2-3 years, when the ecosystem has made a port of everything, it'll be possible to switch to ARM fully
I hope I get a joyful 2 years out of my new x86 Macbook Pro and I look forward to an ARM future