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They are running Altium on MAC?!

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tooki:

--- Quote from: magic on January 08, 2024, 09:16:17 am ---As the resident Apple hater here I can only remind you that Apple had maybe 1% of laptop market before they made it possible to run Windows on Macs ;)

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Actually it was around 10%, but who’s counting orders of magnitude?  ;D

tooki:

--- Quote from: tom66 on January 08, 2024, 09:33:37 am ---
--- Quote from: mrburnzie on January 08, 2024, 09:28:54 am ---I am not much of a fan of it either, but the build quality and the battery life is what makes it worth as an every-day carry for doing web, writing documents and for occasional coding.

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That may have been the case 5 years ago, but other ultrabook manufacturers have upped their game.

With Apple you often get an unrepairable laptop in the event of liquid spillage or just normal wear, for instance the Butterfly Keyboard design requires the entire top case to be replaced to change one key. 

Nowadays a Mac is more street cred than actually better.

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Other companies have definitely upped their game on build quality, but they can’t compete on battery life. As others have said, Apple Silicon is insanely energy-efficient. The MacBook Pros with M3-series chips claim 22 hour battery life, and Apple is generally quite good at stating fairly realistic laptop battery figures. I don’t think any Windows laptop can claim anything like that, never mind a laptop as slim as that.

Gerhard_dk4xp:
Someone here had the idea to run Altium on a Macbook Air with Parallels.
I tried two days and gave up. When you give your address to P., you'll get
daily super duper special offers for 6 weeks that are all alike.

I run my own Altium on a WIN10 VMware machine under Linux. That even
works when i'm $SOMEWHERE with the motor cycle and a tiny DELL XPS13.
Slower than on the tower at home, but I'm always ready for answers.


Cheers, Gerhard

Someone:

--- Quote from: tooki on January 08, 2024, 10:17:07 pm ---The MacBook Pros with M3-series chips claim 22 hour battery life, and Apple is generally quite good at stating fairly realistic laptop battery figures. I don’t think any Windows laptop can claim anything like that, never mind a laptop as slim as that.
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There are tiny/slim ARM windows laptops with similar battery life such as a Lenovo ThinkPad X13s. But I'm not familiar with anything that has both the performance and power efficiency of the Apple M series.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: mrburnzie on January 08, 2024, 09:03:00 am ---Just watched it in more detail... they are running windows on the mac  :palm: :palm:
I was just so happy to see a slight chance of altium creating a mac variant  :'( :'( :'(

Case CLOSED.

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AD is probably so tied to Windows that porting it to macOS would probably mean rewriting 80% of it to address a rather small market (although this market is clearly increasing in the last years, while Windows market share is actually decreasing.)

But using a VM is fine. As long as you have enough RAM. (Which on Macs is not cheap.)

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