On: 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test

[dev_tty01]

This is the 12th generation Apple Silicon processor design.

A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10, A11, A12, A13, A14, M1

[pwthornton → dev_tty01]

I think this is 11th generation, where the A14 and M1 are the same generation. I expect we will see a few other chips from this generation, perhaps a A14X for iPad Pros and a M1X for bigger laptops and iMacs.

[kace91 → dev_tty01]

The issue is with macos running on apple silicon. There was a thread today somewhere with docker mentioning that they are still working on support for example.

[lukeramsden → dev_tty01]

First generation of MacOS on Apple Silicon?

[gayprogrammer → lukeramsden]

iOS has always used the same kernel as macOS.

[yjftsjthsd-h → gayprogrammer]

Sure, it's all Darwin, but userspace matters a lot - you can do lots of things on MacOS that you can't do on iOS (JIT, arbitrary web engines, assorted emulators, pop a root shell and load arbitrary kernel modules)

[AsyncAwait → gayprogrammer]

And that helps i.e. Docker how?

[heavyset_go → gayprogrammer]

iOS XNU is compiled with different features than macOS XNU.

[saagarjha → heavyset_go]

They are mostly the same.

[Brendinooo → dev_tty01]

Sure, but there are concerns beyond the chip itself.

[JAlexoid → dev_tty01]

I'm absolutely not worried about the silicon.

I am worried about the other hardware and MacOSX being total POS right now.