• sugar_in_your_tea
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    Yup, that’s what I’m guessing. Now that there’s a second gen, people are also probably willing to take a risk on it. People hear that it’s faster than Intel chips, and they’re seeing that Apple is continuing to develop it, so they’re likely interested in trying it out.

    I think it’ll have a pretty hard cap though because macOS isn’t very compatible for gaming, but I guess we’ll see if double digit market share is enough to interest the gaming industry to target it.

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      Yea. My impression though is that they’ve made their first move toward supporting games in their latest announcements. Some tooling for converting the code base to work with the M-chips and even running a chip emulator shim if you want despite the performance drop. Saw some video of someone playing a game at ok frame rates with it, so they could be serious about finally getting gaming happening to some extent.

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        I’m interested to see if Apple continues to work on game support, or if they just leave it as is. The current support is a start, but Apple has historically not cared about games, and that perception will take a lot of effort to reverse.