Dennis Oberhoff, the developer responsible for the DaftCloud application, has noticed something interesting. In an Xcode error report that you receive from the users of the application (you may remember the option that comes out to send those reports after a crash) it appears that one of those DaftCloud errors has occurred on an iMac with an ARM processor- 64 .
ARM-64 is the base architecture for the M1 chip and future Apple Silicon chips pending release, which means that someone would have been using DaftCoud from a prototype of those iMac . Perhaps an Apple employee, from one of its internal laboratories, with one of those iMac that Jon Prosser comments in his leaks .
We still don’t know when we’ll see it, but the new iMac is already present in a way
In the report we can see how that iMac with ARM-64 architecture runs macOS 11.2.1 , which is precisely the current stable version of macOS Big Sur. It does not imply that its launch is imminent, but it does suggest that internally Apple engineers have already been able to test it with some ease.
Here’s the first iMac with an M1 chip … homemade from the guts of a Mac mini
At the moment we know that the iMac range will be simplified, since the iMac pro will disappear as soon as its stock runs out. Regarding the arrival of the new models with Apple Silicon chip, there are those who say that they will appear in a few weeks and there are those who see them for autumn . And as I write these lines, the 21.5-inch models with the choice of 512GB or 1TB of SSD storage remain unavailable . We can only wait.
