Tag: ARM

Apple today announced new Mac mini, new MacBook Pro models with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips.

There were no special event, however, Apple still had a keynote video describing new hardware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ij9PiehENA

M2 Pro chip comes with 19 GPU cores and M2 Max doubles than number. M2 Max could be equipped with 96GB of RAM.

New Mac mini comes with M2 and M2 Pro chips. Also Mac mini with M2 Pro provides 4 Thunderbolt ports. Intel-based Mac mini is no longer available.

MacBook Pro now supports WiFi 6E nearly doubling throughput. 16" model offers up to 22 hours of battery life.

Apple Newsroom:

• Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max: next-generation chips for next-level workflows
• Apple introduces new Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro — more powerful, capable, and versatile than ever
• Apple unveils MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

References:

• New MacBook Pro now official: M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, 8K HDMI, Wi-Fi 6E
• Apple launches new Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro chip, lower $599 starting price
• Apple Announces New MacBook Pros With M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips, Up to 96GB RAM, 8K HDMI, Wi-Fi 6E, and More
• Apple Announces New Mac Mini With M2 and M2 Pro Chips at Lower $599 Starting Price
• New 16-Inch MacBook Pro Offers Up to 22 Hours Battery Life – Longest Ever in a Mac
• New MacBook Pro Models Feature HDMI 2.1 Port Instead of HDMI 2.0
• Apple Updates the MacBook Pro and Mac mini with New Chipsets and Other Features
• M2 Pro Mac Mini Specs: Up to 32GB of RAM, Up to Three External Displays, 240Hz Support, and More
• New MacBook Pros come with color-matched MagSafe charging cables
• M2 Mac mini tidbits: External display support, how to save an extra $100, more
• 5 Things to Know About the New MacBook Pros
• M2 Mac mini vs M1 Mac mini - compared
• M2 Pro Mac mini vs Mac Studio - compared

VMWare adds support for Apple Silicon. Now Windows 11 could be a guest OS on Apple Silicon Macs.

On Apple Silicon, we’ve introduced our first round of features for Windows 11 on Arm. In this release VMware Tools provides virtual graphics and networking, and more is still to come. With certified and signed drivers Windows 11 looks fantastic, and adjust the resolution to 4K and beyond!  
Note that Fusion on Apple Silicon must run the Arm variant of Windows 11, and it does not support the x86/Intel version of Windows. 

VMWare Fusion Blog

VMWare Fusion Blog: VMware Fusion 13: Now available for Intel and Apple Silicon Macs

Reference: VMware Fusion 13 Now Available With Native Support for Apple Silicon Macs

Wow! It's 50th episode here. Let's get something interesting for today's good reads.

• Let's start with good explanation on how Rosetta 2 translates x86 code into ARM – Why is Rosetta 2 fast? by Dougall J;
  
  
• Swift Concurrency – Things They Don’t Tell You by Wojciech Kulik provides great deep dive into proper concurrent code development;
  
  
• And another article on proper concurrency practices – How Does Swift Concurrency Prevents Thread Explosions? by Lee Kah Seng;
  
  
• Brett Ohland goes into details on data formatting – You can stop writing date format strings like “yyyy-MMM-dd”;
  
  
• Apple Maps are getting better now, learn how to add those to your web site – Using MapKit JS to Embed Apple Maps in Websites by Moritz Philip Recke;
  
  
• Leonardo Maia Pugliese shares an article on making SwiftUI code modular with SwiftPM – Introduction to SwiftUI Modularisation with SPM;
  
  
• Core Data property mapping to Swift is suboptimal, learn how to better handle those with article by Natascha Fadeeva – How to handle non-optional Core Data properties in Swift;
  
  
• When .animation animates more (or less) than it’s supposed to by Ole Begemann covers interesting aspects of animation behavior in SwiftUI;
  
  
• Jordan Morgan explains how to make your collection or table view better compatible with keyboard – Basic Keyboard Navigation for Collection & Tableview.;
  
  
• Widgets and other extensions need access to shared files – Share files between your iOS app, Widget and WatchKit extensions by Marco Eidinger covers exactly that;
  
  
• Antoine van der Lee provides good guide on result builders in Swift – Result builders in Swift explained with code examples;
  
  
• Pin a view to the bottom of safe area in SwiftUI by Natalia Panferova solves one of simple things you might need in your app;
  
  
• Craig Hockenberry shares a hint on how to keep your storage free space under control – Managing Xcode Downloads.

Big list for this week. And, as always, more to come next time!

Microsoft made a comment on the future of ARM Windows on Apple Silicon Macs both on running natively and virtualized.

We asked Microsoft whether running Windows 11 on an M1 Mac in Parallels is supported, and were told it's an unsupported scenario. Running the OS directly on the hardware isn't supported, either.

The Register

Parallels though still provides hints on how to run Windows on M1 Macs.