So if you run it on an Intel Mac, it just works, and if you run it on one of the new ARM Macs, it will run using Rosetta, which will translate the code as you fly. X-Plane 11 is an x86_64 app, as are all plugins ever written for it.
Now, how is this going to work with X-Plane and plugins? The take-away here is that Apple doesn’t just have fast chips for their new machines, they might have the fastest ones. One more for perspective:ĪMD’s new Ryzen 5900X, which is a great chip, with a 105W TDP: That’s…a pretty high score for Apple’s first trip into desktop land. Here’s my 27″ iMac – Intel says the i9 in it is a 95W part:Īnd here’s a new M1-based MacBook Air, with 8 cores running at ten watts: It targets laptop and low power use cases, not gamer-class hardware, and it’s not a discrete GPU. The rest of this post is probably only of interest to Mac users, but for Windows users, it’s worth noting that the M1 chip is fast. On Tuesday Apple announced new Macs powered by Apple’s M1 chip, a custom ARM system-on-a-chip based on the Apple A-series System on a Chip (SoC) from the iPhone and iPad.
