[Razengan]

Are you on a Mac just because of the CPU?

What do you do that solely depends on the CPU and would improve so much by moving to AMD, at the cost of a completely different OS and software?

It would still be beleaguered by Windows, the main reason most of us moved to Macs. :)

[oyashirochama]

I mean honestly the only reason I would stay with Mac would be the 4 TB3 ports, the heat and performance of MacOS pales in comparison to their Windows software production counterparts.

[Razengan]

macOS' thermal management of macOS appears to be better than Windows': https://youtu.be/LGOmbNRlZdM?t=495 (8:15)

It also gives a better battery life on average compared to Windows on the same machine.

And the new Mac Pro is apparently a beast in performance and cooling.

[unicornfinder]

I will say I consistently get better benchmark scores on CPU in macOS than Windows, but anything that involves the GPU is hilariously poor on macOS compared to Windows.

[Razengan]

> but anything that involves the GPU

Even on Metal?

[philliphaydon]

> It also gives a better battery life on average compared to Windows on the same machine.

Only if you have a dedicated gpu. Because OSX can easily switch between integrated and discrete.

On my Macbook 12" I get 2 extra hours out of Windows 10. But on my old Retina Mac Pro I get almost half the time out of Windows 10.

It's a shame that Apple wont go AMD because the battery life would be awesome on OSX with discrete gpu.

[Razengan]

> It's a shame that Apple wont go AMD

I think they're probably just gonna go with their own custom ARM processors, which may have even better battery life.

[holtalanm]

I feel like going to ARM will alienate the customer base of developers that Apple has, won't it?

[maratc]

The developers that use XCode with Objective-C probably won't feel any difference as XCode will likely just silently compile the code into ARM (or both a la universal package from PPC days). It's too early to tell though.