[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.

[holtalanm]

there are a lot of programmers that use mac OS that don't even touch Swift or Objective-C. I'm in the web development industry, and I'd say 50% of the developers I know use apple computers for their job. Java, Ruby, even C#.

[maratc]

After Java/Ruby/C# runtimes are recompiled for ARM, these guys not gonna feel any change as well.

[holtalanm]

that seems a little simplistic. It isn't just the runtimes, but also all the tooling that goes with it. There would be a lot of work involved with recompiling all tooling and runtimes to work on ARM, and would probably alienate a large portion of developers currently using Apple products as a result.