Macintosh To Ditch Intel CPU's

[randy2 (Randy B. Singer)]

I don’t know how many people have seen this, but I’m assuming that not many have, otherwise I would expect there to be a lot of discussion about it here:

Apple will reportedly ditch Intel chips in Macs as early as 2020

Apple will reportedly ditch Intel chips in Macs as early as 2020

In addition, iOS apps will run on Macs. This opens the door for touch-screen Macs.

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Randy B. Singer • Attorney at Law
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Mac OS X Routine Maintenance • http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html

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[kreme (@lbutlr)]

There was a lot of discussion here about it. It’s an old rumor with very little in the way of actual information.

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