Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple ditching Intel
Internally Apple always had an x86 build of OS X running. Just like I’m sure they have an ARM build running today.<p>Intel chips ran cooler, had better power efficiency and were way faster at a lot of things than PowerPC.<p>Leadership was actually super reluctant to switch and it took a demo from an engineer showing the massive improvement to convince them.<p>If Apple is ready to switch to ARM they must have some impressive CPU. Apples not usually one to dabble here and there, so if they switch it’s going to be a wholesale ordeal. What will this look like for the Mac Pro?