It’s been nine months since Apple started the commercial switch to its own M1 processor. Chips, while they were still in development, their performance left the first to try it dumbfounded.
Tim Millett, Apple’s Vice President of Platform Engineering, explained in a brief interview with Tom’s guide, that his team’s specific goal wasn’t just to work with Intel with home processors. We have to create loopholes to justify breaking up with this partner. The Ax processor has paved the way, and it’s still best done for the Mac, and we’ve seen this recently for the iPad Pro.
Bob Purchers, Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, recalls his first encounter with the Mac M1 and his surprise at the autonomy it exhibited: When you have the first device, play it for a few hours and the battery doesn’t move, you say to yourself “Oh this is a mistake, the battery indicator is not working”. And his partner Tim Millett laughed behind him: “No, that’s how you should work“”.
- During our testing for MacBook Pro M1 And you MacBook Air M1 We pay attention to independence in the use of daily work, without omitting anything, from 12:30 / 15:40 for the first and from 10:30 for the second. And at that time Rosetta was used more than today.
Last November, Craig Federighi was that An anecdote similar to independent : « We started getting the first numbers on the drums and we were like, “Are you kidding me? Shouldn’t you have someone who can calculate these things?” In the end, the team went beyond what was originally envisioned, Federighi added: You have a project where, sometimes, you give yourself a goal and you say to yourself, “Okay, we’re almost done, that’s okay.In the case of this slide, the engineers found themselves repeatedly pushing the slider.
Before preparing for this hardware transition, the team first decided to check if a new version of Rosetta could be developed. Being able to ensure a smooth transition for applications that would not quickly adapt to the M1:” We started a small project a few years before moving on to slides […] And everything went well, as expected We have since been able to verify this, and there has been no software crash due to Rosetta.
Even Tim Millett suggests that the performance of Apple’s processors and GPUs could appeal to an audience that was hitherto indifferent to Macs: ” Wouldn’t it be great if we could reach more people among the most demanding players? At the moment, Apple has not cut all its cards, especially those planned for large laptops and then the Mac Pro, which will receive a new generation of processors, and then, by the way, needs to convince game publishers …
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