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If Apple moves the Laptops to ARM it will have to perform emulation of x86 code for legacy applications,which will dramatically reduce the performance. So the performance of ARM based Macbook will fall off dramatically. The Native Macbook applications will be handicapped by moving to a low end processor, and if emulation is used for legacy code, that will be a disaster. The best way to view this is that a move to ARM even for native applications is a move away from the high end processor to a low end processor,and that gets worse with emulation. You can already see the disappointing performance of Windows RT which is based upon ARM. More than a year ago,Microsoft had announced that the RT machine was going to run legacy applications via emulation, but obviously they abandoned that approach because of the performance penalty. Apple sells to the masses by exploiting the image it has cultivated of 'superior quality'. It cannot afford to give up on performance without destroying its brand.

What? You think Apple couldn't produce a large quantity of apps for a new platform (ARM notebook)? You must be kidding. It fits perfectly in their lineup.

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