Apple’s latest Mac event was completed yesterday. Most notable is apple’s launch of its ARM-based M1 chip.
The emergence of ARM architecture has paved the way for the success of MAC OS, iPad, iPhone, and IOT devices from the application layer.
The mobile terminal gets through the PC terminal officially and formally promoted
Designers, product managers and other workers, naturally to work efficiency as the preferred office needs. After this release, the future commercialization strategy of Apple is natural at the application level: the same operating system. For example, IOS apps can be downloaded and used on the Mac.
Apple’s all-platform connectivity is truly seamless between phones, ipads, and computers. Increase the efficiency of office and creative staff, and the playability of the system.
Apple’s CURRENT M1 chip is based on ARM. But the current Windows 10 only supports x86 and X86_64 architectures, so if you want to buy a dual OS from Apple, you need a virtual machine to install it properly
The X86 system is dominated by the Wintel alliance built by Microsoft and Intel, which monopolizes the PC operating system for nearly 30 years, forming a huge user group and deeply curing the usage habits of many users. Meanwhile, the X86 system has formed a unified standard in hardware and software development. Almost all x86 hardware platforms can directly use Microsoft Windows and almost all the popular tool software, so the x86 system has incomparable advantages in terms of compatibility.
Almost all ARM systems use Linux operating system, and almost all hardware systems have to build their own system independently, which is not compatible with other systems, which also leads to its application software can not be easily transplanted, which has seriously restricted the development and application of ARM system. However, due to apple’s own operating system, the ability to write at the application layer, and the appeal of Apple, it can unify the OPERATING system of ARM structure computer naturally, so that the newly launched COMPUTER system based on ARM structure has a unified, open and free operating system, which provides strong support and power for the development of ARM.
As for the launch of Arm in Windows10 system, it will also be because the system supports too little hardware. A variety of keyboard, mouse, headset, projector and other requirements under WIN are driven, but the startup manufacturers are written by x86.
Highlight 1: A new design concept for the notebook
Traditional laptop is a motherboard, CPU motherboard, there are optional independent GPU, between CPU and GPU are relatively independent, each with their own tasks and have their own independent memory space, it needs to be to do data exchange the data from their memory copy it to the other side of the memory space (often use PCIe).
Many tasks require a large number of cpus and Gpus to work together, and memory data copy is very expensive (a memory swap is several orders of magnitude more expensive than a floating-point calculation, especially in terms of energy overhead).
Of course, the computer Architecture world has long seen the inefficiencies of such separate Memory Spaces, and has long proposed a solution called Unified Memory Architecture (UMA).
It brings a whole new way of thinking about processor design for laptops, and it’s worth noting that future generations are likely to make big strides in performance and efficiency.
Highlight 2: Fast IOS app compatibility
Simple transplant IOS application to the Mac computer, in fact, wechat’s small program has done. **** opens wechat applet on winDOS computers, bringing extremely poor operating experience and compatibility. Because product managers have to think about mobile interactions, button entry, and image sizes, it’s a little bit more awkward on a computer.
▲ Wechat applet open on Mac
IOS software compatibility is also a problem, whether a large number of IOS applications will crash and other issues. Even if Apple releases a Universal Binary at the same time, which can compile previous x86-based software to run on new arm-based macBooks, ** the actual compatibility will not be perfect, ** developers will need to further optimize for the M1 chip. Even if Apple’s appeal is very strong, this optimization process cannot be done overnight. It takes time and experience to accumulate.
From the big notebook market, in the short term to the overall market pattern does not have much impact, especially most of the domestic industry software has a certain dependence on Windows ecology, it is difficult to change in the short term. The Windows+ Intel /AMD+Nvidia platform still has a performance advantage in large gaming, high performance and other markets.
However, the power advantage of the ARM architecture, and as software ADAPTS more and more mature, the new generation of MacBook is likely to see a wave of growth in the thin and light office market.
New mediation software always takes time. If you need to buy a machine to use it, you don’t want to be stuck with a bunch of apps.
At this stage, only apple’s Pro software has been adapted, including some games from Apple manufacturers.
Adobe’s whole Family bucket is all about Lightroom (late this year) and Photoshop (early 2021), so buying the latest macbook now will make a lot of software (designers, developers beware) unavailable.
But iPhone and iPad apps are available on Macs, which should enrich Mac apps.
For a coder who runs lightweight scripts locally and deploys his code in the cloud, the new MAC is useless. Arm environment can’t even do local testing…
Wonder what kind of computer the Internet companies will buy after that, they won’t always use the old MBP16…
Doesn’t it smell good to play big games on IOS on your computer?
Because it’s also an ARM platform, the Mac OS now has access to iPad and iPhone apps, such as the press release that shows off high quality games like wild cars. The history of not having games to play on the Mac may be a thing of the past. Because there are so many great games on mobile and IOS.
How compatible the ARM architecture is for professional software, from office suites and Chrome plugins to video clips and professional apps (it seems to be mentioned), is what Mac users are focused on.
Highlight 3: The operating system of the future, just one.
No matter what the user buys, the future will be to put all the terminals on one application. We always bring in a few years of software transition as follows. You can see whether it’s Huawei’s Hongmeng system, or Apple’s, or Android.
Huawei is also doing distributed device management and application sharing on The Hongmeng System, but what Huawei lacks is a large application ecosystem and support from developers and vendors.
It has become an irresistible trend to get through the device terminal and realize the integration of the user system
More and more x86 software is translating instructions that can’t be executed by the processor on arm-based Macs via Apple’s Apple Silicon, so that applications with other instruction sets can run on Apple Silicon.
You can log in to IOS wechat on your Mac, dual wechat, play Monument Valley on your Mac, and play Honor of Kings on your Mac at the same time.
Mainstream domestic applications are now supported on the Mac. Including wechat and Alipay
It is inevitable to look forward to a larger and more efficient office on Apple in the future. It is a more efficient solution to no longer play with the phone while working. Instead, it is a more efficient solution to install the phone application directly on the Mac.