navin_davis wrote:
I'm planning to upgrade my MacBook to the new MacBook Pro M1 13.3 in. Currently, M1 doesn't support all applications and a convertor software is used to make the application work (which doesn't work for all softwares). In the future, if Apple is providing an update for Mac M1, to support all applications will that be a software level update or hardware level update?
The reason I am asking is, if it is a software level update, then I can just go-ahead and buy the new one, else I will wait till apple fix these issues.
? Maybe you can give an example of this statement "M1 doesn't support all applications" ?
I see no issue here—Rosetta 2 an emulator built into macOS Big Sur that will enable ARM Macs to run old Intel apps. Rosetta 2 essentially “translates” instructions that were written for Intel processors into commands that Apple’s chips can understand. Developers won’t need to make any changes to their old apps; they’ll just work.
Here is what microsoft has to say about their third party apps...for example:
Office on M1 Apple Silicon—Microsoft support, June 2020, we've already started the process of moving Mac apps to universal binaries. In the future we will natively support both Apple Silicon and Intel chipsets within the same executable.
Microsoft 365 and Office 2019 support for Apple Silicon
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-365-and-office-2019-support-for-apple-silicon-c55b603e-14a6-4b69-bdc0-2bb4c9a36834?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-office-will-be-about-20-second-slower-initially-on-apple-silicon-rosetta-2/
