{"id":33862,"date":"2020-06-24T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macradio.net\/blog\/?p=33862"},"modified":"2020-06-29T19:18:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T02:18:18","slug":"newsletter-issue-997-so-is-your-intel-mac-going-to-self-destruct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2020\/06\/newsletter-issue-997-so-is-your-intel-mac-going-to-self-destruct\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #997: So Is Your Intel Mac Going to Self-Destruct?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In announcing a two-year transition from Intel Inside to Apple Silicon, has Apple killed potential sales of new Macs?<\/p>\n<p>Is that even possible? Or are the tech pundits getting just a little bit beside themselves with logic and reason?<\/p>\n<p>Now the news about Apple\u2019s third processor switch wasn\u2019t surprising. It had been predicted for several years, and Intel\u2019s delays in reducing die size and making CPUs faster and more power efficient haven\u2019t helped. It meant that your spiffy new Mac wasn\u2019t very much better than the one for the previous year, or the year before that.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, Apple boasts that A-series CPU performance has increased 100-fold in the past decade. I\u2019m not aware that today\u2019s MacBook Pro\u2019s performance is 100-fold faster than the 2010 model, the one that\u2019s still in regular use over here.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2020\/06\/newsletter-issue-997\/#DESTRUCT\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In announcing a two-year transition from Intel Inside to Apple Silicon, has Apple killed potential sales of new Macs? Is that even possible? Or are the tech pundits getting just a little bit beside themselves with logic and reason? Now the news about Apple\u2019s third processor switch wasn\u2019t surprising. 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