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00:00All right, let's talk about Apple Silicon. I wanted to shoot this video like two three days ago right after WWDC
00:06I had all these reactionary thoughts
00:08I wanted to share with you guys, but then as I sat on it as I let it simmer my brain
00:12I realized that this was this was big. This was much bigger than I'd originally thought not just for Apple
00:18Not just for tech enthusiasts like you and I but for just the entire computing industry. I think this is going to be
00:24It's going to be something big. Okay
00:27So just to explain in the one sentence
00:30What is Apple Silicon Apple has the two-year plan to transition their computing hardware like their laptops and desktops?
00:37Away from Intel chips to their own
00:40Custom in-house made silicon kind of like their iPads and iPhones
00:44So I'm gonna start off this conversation with a topic of hardware
00:48So Apple didn't announce any retail or consumer grade hardware at WWDC, right?
00:53They did announce this developer transition kit
00:56It's this Mac mini enclosure equipped with the A12Z chip from the iPad Pro
01:01And it's device that they did most of the big Sur demos from during the presentation
01:05It's a $500 kit, but it's a rental right you use it as a tool for whatever development purposes that you have
01:10And then when it's done you send it back to Apple very similar to the developers transition kit
01:15They had a few years ago. Now. This is not a consumer grade product
01:20It was meant to it was meant to basically showcase to developers and the world what their path was going forward
01:27with these new processors
01:29It's not to be used as some kind of like benchmark or guidance as to what their upcoming consumer grade products are like
01:36Not at all like that A12Z is a powerful chip
01:39But that hardware was put out by Apple as something quick and inexpensive for developers to get on board to this whole
01:46Transition process the real hardware that is coming out is rumored to be either a 13-inch MacBook device or a
01:5324-inch iMac device and these are slated to come out at the end of this year or early next year
01:58but in either of these cases the
02:00processors that are in these devices that are coming out for consumer level consumption are
02:05Invariably going to be more capable and more powerful than the A12Z that's in that developer kit like for sure
02:12Now there is something to be taken away from this developer transition kit and it's the price tag
02:18So five hundred dollars is a lot cheaper than the thousand dollars that they had for the old
02:24Developer transition kit when they went from power PC to Intel and it makes you think why is it so cheap?
02:30Why is it half the price of the old one granted things are different now, right?
02:34Apple is now in a position where there's so many more developers around the world that are making apps and
02:39Things for the Apple ecosystem
02:41so maybe they want to be as inclusive as possible make this kit available to as many people as possible and there's also the
02:47other consideration where
02:49Apple is a company now where they're trying to encourage
02:51Everybody to just get into development
02:53So again, it's like, you know
02:54Try to get more people onto this thing
02:56But I think a big part of it is the cost of the components when they've had the old
03:01Developer transition kit they had to use an Intel chip and we've talked about this before in previous videos
03:05Intel stuff is expensive
03:07Like you just can't get away from the price point of Intel chips
03:11You put one of their chips in your products you got to pay up
03:13But this time inside that Mac mini enclosure is an 812 Z. It's something that they put in their iPad pros
03:20it's something they have tons of and they're inexpensive to make and I think we're starting to see the
03:26Benefits one of the benefits of what arm based chips can do it's you you have cheaper stuff now
03:33I hope I hope right that it's going to be cheap for the consumers. It's clearly less expensive for Apple to produce a
03:40arm based
03:42Mac mini than an Intel based Mac mini right a hundred percent sure it's cheaper to make this
03:47DTK than the Intel based thing that they sell to consumers right now
03:50But I I just feel like they're gonna make it cheaper for consumers. I just have this gut feeling
03:55It's so on Apple and it's you know, I've seen it in the comments
03:58I've suggested this for and everyone laughs at this idea because Apple is just gonna rip people off
04:02That's what everyone thinks. Well, that's a lot of people think but what if they made it cheaper because they can
04:08Right, it'd be pretty sick
04:10And if you look at some of the cost breakdown of Apple's products that use custom silicon right now
04:15Those chips aren't super expensive at least not in comparison to Intel stuff. Okay, I want to move this conversation to
04:22Software particularly about the software that they have to use to do this whole transition process now before WWDC
04:29There was a lot of concern from articles and comments that were written about
04:34like the difficulty the obstacle of how hard is it gonna be for Apple to
04:39Transition both their developers and their user base to this new arm based
04:45product and here's the thing about transitions when it comes to moving between platforms like this the definition of a
04:52Successful or proper transition is if the user can't even tell that they've made the transition right for you
04:58And I as an enthusiast we want to see how this is working and we want to understand the nuance of all this stuff
05:03but for the average user they want this to be as
05:07Invisible as possible like you you use the old Intel based Apple product one day
05:13Using it and then the next day you switch over to this
05:16Apple silicon based one and there should be no difference your programs your apps. Everything should just be
05:21Exactly the way it was from your old one and that would be the dream
05:25That's what Apple wants and that's what the user base wants
05:28And I actually think Apple's gonna pull this off because if you look at their tech demos
05:31They have two tools to make this happen
05:34Their new X code will be able to build
05:36binaries that can run on both platforms at the same time so you can have one file that runs both on Intel products and
05:42Apple silicon products, but the most impressive one to me was their demo of Rosetta 2
05:47So this is a tool that allows you to use regular
05:52Intel binaries like stuff that's made for the old old but stuff that's made for
05:58existing Apple products
06:00Download that thing and then run it on a device that uses Apple silicon now the example that they use like the demo that they
06:07Did during the event was a game and people looked at this demo the wrong way when I see the comments about this like people
06:13Just missed the point of it that game is old and the graphics are very unimpressive, but it's not a gaming benchmark
06:19They're not even trying to showcase hardware here
06:21They're trying to showcase the software the whole idea is that you can take a program or a game that was built for an Intel
06:27System run it through Rosetta 2 and it'll still run like without alteration of the code
06:32it'll still run in a very viable form now that being said I do have some concerns about gaming and
06:39Graphics dependent apps running on Apple silicon during the event they showcase Maya
06:44But that scene was pre-loaded and they didn't do any edits that would tax the CPU or GPU very much
06:50It's cool that it runs, but I really would like to see more and then when it comes to Windows apps and games
06:56There's no boot camp
06:57There's no way to directly boot into Windows and I think for a lot of people that use their Apple systems to play games like
07:03That's like the that's a very common way for people to play Windows games on
07:08Apple systems right now you can do it through virtualization and stuff down the line
07:11But we'll see how that pans out the big thing though is that there's no
07:16Discrete GPU all of the graphical performance from these Apple silicon based systems
07:22I think they have to come from the from the chip the a14 a13 a15 whatever it is
07:28That's the only thing that can provide the graphics for these systems now if you look at Apple's kind of graphical
07:36Progress over the years they've made some big strides and what they've been able to do with
07:41Graphics on the iPads and their iPhones
07:44It's impressive for tablets and phones, but when you compare that stuff to what we have available from like AMD and Nvidia
07:51There's just no comparison
07:52I think there's gonna be some pressure on Apple to deliver something that is competitive in the graphical department
07:58Like I think their CPU stuff is that's fine. I think they have that covered
08:01It's just the GPU not that everyone needs graphics capabilities
08:05But for the people that do they need to step it up and who knows maybe by the end of the year
08:09We're gonna see some really impressive GPU capabilities coming from those new a14 based stuff who knows
08:15I actually think that
08:16Because they can cool these things actively like they can throw fans on these devices like for their laptops and desktops
08:21It'll help a lot in terms of what they're capable of but yeah, I'm excited
08:26I am definitely excited to see what Apple does not just like this year next year
08:30But like what does it look at the two-year transition line? What does that look like like, you know Apple?
08:35They already have all this stuff planned out
08:36They know the devices and the chips that they can be placing out for the next two years
08:39They know exactly what they're gonna do. But what does that look like? What does the end stage look like?
08:44And yeah, I'm I'm glad that we're able to see this. Okay. Hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs
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