Has Apple gone full circle with the M1 chip

[southchatham]

Apple PPC chips was a closed Apple system. Has Apple sort of returned to this with the M1. You now need Rosetta again to run Intel software. Apple has much more clout now than back then to get software makers on board. Thoughts?

I started with the G3, then Intel and now next week I will using the M1. It kind of feels like going full circle to me. I kind of like the feeling .

 

[MacInWin]

No, the PPC was a very different animal. The M1 is a full System-on-a-chip. Everything is on the one chip--cpu, gpu, storage. No more RAM on the logic board, no more SSD, soldered or not.

Functionally, the PPC was not a closed system, it was more that Apple was the only company using it. Others went with Intel. When the PPC started not to be competitive, Apple went Intel. Now Intel is struggling to advance, Apple has gone SoC with the M1.