{"id":33928,"date":"2020-12-29T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macradio.net\/blog\/?p=33928"},"modified":"2020-12-30T08:10:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T15:10:41","slug":"newsletter-issue-1013-apples-m1-macs-must-you-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2020\/12\/newsletter-issue-1013-apples-m1-macs-must-you-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #1013: Apple&#8217;s M1 Macs: Must You Wait?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve used Macs for a long time, say over 25 years, you might recall the original processor migration. Then it was the journey from Motorola 680\u00d70 chips to the PowerPC, said to be the ultimate processor. But it wasn\u2019t such a friendly change.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, just about every app you used, even those from Apple, hadn\u2019t made the trip to the new processor. So they had to run in emulation. So they\u2019d run, more or less, about the same as Macs using the 68030 CPU, such as the IIci or the IIx. If you were upgrading from a Quadra, for example, using the 68040 CPU, you lost the performance advantage till the apps were updated.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you weren\u2019t using Macs way back then \u2014 or weren\u2019t even around \u2014 no worries. Most of this should be pretty clear anyway. Apple as \u201cvintage\u201d for several years), and a Late 2014 iMac (which has just been declared \u201cvintage\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2020\/12\/newsletter-issue-1013\/#wait\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve used Macs for a long time, say over 25 years, you might recall the original processor migration. Then it was the journey from Motorola 680\u00d70 chips to the PowerPC, said to be the ultimate processor. 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For one thing, just about every app you used, even those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17097,17098,10390,17099,2122,379,8301],"class_list":["post-33928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-17097","tag-17098","tag-cpu","tag-late-2014-imac","tag-mac","tag-powerpc","tag-quadra"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Newsletter Issue #1013: Apple&#039;s M1 Macs: Must You Wait? - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2020\/12\/newsletter-issue-1013-apples-m1-macs-must-you-wait\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Newsletter Issue #1013: Apple&#039;s M1 Macs: Must You Wait? - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you\u2019ve used Macs for a long time, say over 25 years, you might recall the original processor migration. 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