Stefan Mileschin

Dumping Intel already costs an ARM and a leg

Fruity cargo cult Apple has announced that it has put its ARM-based chips into a Mac Mini which it is going to rent to developers for $500 as part of its ARM enema to purge Intel chips from its system.

The mini will run on Apple’s A12Z chip — the same one found in the 2020 iPad Pro — and includes 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. It will come preloaded with a beta version of macOS Big Sur and Xcode to help developers ready their apps for consumer Macs when they launch starting later this year. The DTK also has “a variety of Mac I/O ports”.

Apple demonstrated a Mac running the A12Z processor during the WWDC presentation, and it seemed to fare well with Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and the company’s own professional apps like Final Cut Pro X.

The Tame Apple Press is making a big thing of the fact that Apple invented the chip and talking about “Apple Silicon” but it is basically a souped up ARM spec.
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