Two reasons why I am skipping Apple Silicon Macs

Dmitry Yarygin
The Shadow
Published in
7 min readFeb 27, 2021

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I’ve already written an article about the reasons why Apple Silicon might be a good and not so good choice. There is no doubt that technically this is a huge step forward for the whole computer industry. It’s fast, efficient and you can actually use your MacBook on your lap without fear of potential burns.

However, today I wanted to talk about the top reasons why you should reconsider using Apple Silicon chips and instead stick with x86 architecture at least for now. We never know what the next day might bring and maybe ARM-based machines will become mainstream and provide a choice of different operating systems, software, and possibilities.

But for now, we primarily have Apple Silicon and Raspberry Pi as major platforms and only Apple Silicon is an ARM-based platform that gives a proper performance for everyday tasks.

What are the main reasons why you might want to avoid Apple computers on Apple Silicon chips?

It’s a closed Software platform

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Dmitry Yarygin
The Shadow

Nomad lifestyle writer. Passionate about breaking software— QA Engineer. My Travel & Tech YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/nomadicdmitry