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Short for "Apple Silicon", the marketing name for Apple's own series of ARM CPUs used in Macs since 2020.


They do have a lot of very weird abbreviations, like in the getting-started/install page there are options for: MacOS (Intel/AMD) (...=> amd macs? I guess hackintosh?), Linux AMD (no Intel this time?)

I get they are abbreviating amd64 but still... I've never seen it done like this...


It's approximately like shortening "Processor made by Apple" to "Processor". The important bit is gone.


Fine.

“Mac (Apple)”


This is like shortening github to git


not really, since there's the extra context of "Mac" right before it, so it's easier to know what it's about...




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