I’d ask for a promotion if people around you are ordering 16GB machines for tasks that has a 32GB Min requirement.
The real take-away is that, with some real pressure on the x64 ecosystem in general, and on Intel in particular, we may be in for very nice upgrades in the future, which makes everything better >
Honestly, i think Intel are dead in the water at this point. AMD have been showing them up on their own patch for a while now, and now Apple are not only walking away from them as a customer, but seemingly leading the way for mainstream CPUs.
Intel have been ‘bolting on’ to their CPUs for decades, and it’s the end of the road now, they’re too bloated, wasteful and hot - and it’s going to get more embarrassing when Apple unveil the more performant CPUs, and AMD keep pushing the Ryzens.
Intel need an entirely new path, and that’s not easy with so many legacy machines and o/s’s out there to maintain support on. I honestly don’t know what they’re going to do longterm - obviously they’re fine short term due to the mass market they have.
I think companies like TSMC are the ones to watch, they’ve been working in the background and securing such deals with Apple (Silicon) and Microsoft (Azure), plus the demand for Windows ARM will really ramp up in the coming years when mainstream see what the MB Air can achieve.
My hope, personally, is that Linux ARM comes through as a valid audio platform whereby products like Cubase may exists.
One things for sure, for audio, Apple Silicon is looking killer - and this is only the first step of an entirely new era.