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Well first off I am a hardware guy (I still have an SGI O2 and a Sun Blade 2500 that still work for those old folks) so I think it is great that they are transitioning to their own silicon. The reason is because they will have better control over a ton of stuff. The CPU and all other subcomponents will be optimized for the machine and they will likely use much less power. Lets face it, the intel processor has always been just good enough but never great since intel has to support a lot of other companies and needs so they make a jack of all trades CPU (thus the reason we are able to build Hackintoshes). This works for most things we do daily but it is not optimized for specific tasks and we all know Apple will optimize everything on the system. I do think the new ARM based machines will out perform Intel silicon. Also, if you look around you can already find ARM based servers, granted on the fringe of technology but they do exists. I also think virtualization tools like parallels will still be around on the ARM machines to run windows stuff so I don't see the transition as an end all. Hell we might even be able to virtualize Catalina in parallels on an ARM mac. I know I was able to get OpenStep 4.0 to virtualize in parallels on my MBP, granted I never got the network card to work but the rest of it worked. The point is these tools will still exist and likely work on the new hardware given time. As for building a Hackintosh with an ARM processor, that might not be possible due to Apple's customizations to it's processor.