Hello,
My useless opinions - Apple said a couple of things during the presentation that mattered to me.
- They will continue to support Intel Macs.
- They are still coming out with unannounced Intel Macs.
Naturally no timelines mentioned but I personally am not particularly worried. The new MP7.1 is an impressive beast used heavily in audio and won’t be useless in two years, the newest laptops are impressive, and Apple has a history of supporting most of their products for quite a while.
I’ve spoken to a couple of developers who said this transition, while not painless, promises to be easier for them as the Xcode tools are pretty easy to deal with so far. Those who haven’t migrated to Metal graphics will have a few performance issues. I specifically asked how many are using some embedded x86 assembly and all of them have moved away from that. I’m not sure how representative of all developers that is.
This is speculation, no one knows when Intel will be unsupported, but I think we’ll be fine for quite a while, probably a few more generations of professional machines.
My useless opinions only,
Hugh