Cant wait for Apple to shove the i9 9900k into their 2019 MacBook Pro so I can finally have fire works for next years 4th of July...,(reply>), apple may comparable with mobile chip manufacturer, but can never beat neither intel or amd about desktop chip, although both are cpus, but desktop and and mobile chips are not in the same category,(reply>), If they do actually switch over to ARM chips for everything, OSX wouldn't work at all being written for x86 architecture where iOS is already fully running on ARM. They did this when they switched from OS 9(PowerPC and RISC architecture) to OSX and Intel x86. OSX was basically emulated and killed the performance of the power PC's that you ran it on at the time. It also gives reason for old users to yet again buy new hardware as they phase out support on "legacy" macs. They have done this before, why wouldn't they do it again? Everything pre ipod and OSX was bailed on within a year after the new stuff had came out. It would expand apples control over the user even more, which is sort of the direction of apple for the past 10 years. At some point, an apple desktop will be a completely closed off product just like the iPhone. You have access to the apple app store, and the computer will not be upgrade-able at all.,(reply>), Worse, apple is looking to go their own way. Maybe not as soon as 2019 but they are looking to get out of computers using Intel or AMD and likely having some sort of ARM chip developed for phones,tablets,laptops, and desktops(even though it will essentially be a better cooled version of the phone or laptop). They will drop osX for iOS only too. It will be a locked down raspberry Pi.,(reply>), they may probably put 4 28core Xeons and 4 quadro RTX 8000 and completely remove the cooling solution to remain light and thin,(reply>), r/whoosh