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Originally Posted by Chris
Eldest begins studying sound production in September and is in the market for a high-end laptop to support his education. He’s leaning towards a MacBook Pro ... we’re a Mac household, and he’s been composing on GarageBand since he was about 7. But is it now a serious risk, buying a powerful MacBook in the next 8 weeks? Normally I’d hope for at least 5-7 years service out of such a machine but if their range fully transitions to ARM-based chips over the next 2 years, at some point they’ll cut support for intel machines.
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Without visibility of any firm timescales it's difficult to say how much of a risk it would be sinking a hefty chunk of cash into a new machine in the next few weeks.
During the previous transition from PPC to Intel Apple dropped OS support for PPC three years after releasing the first Intel units. That doesn't mean to say that apps stopped working of course. IIRC Logic Pro for example was still working on PPC until X was released in 2013.
My 2p worth would be to hang on until Christmas time and see what falls out of Santa's sack when he empties it and perhaps wait a little while longer to find out whether or not the new platform turns out to be good or crap.