#12

Guess that will not take long…
VS Code (and many others with them) is also made on electron.
Reading the previews and tests of this new ARM based systems it seems like Apple has hit gold (for the n-tieth time) with this chip. That will certainly benefit Obsidian (even more speed).

Will it overtake Intel architecture? No hardware security flows discovered (yet). Guess (personal opinion) it want take long before these will come in the open… They have some great engineers with Apple but there still human and humans make mistakes… But that is not the object if this thread :wink:

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#13

So there should be a build around already, because that’s available as of a month ago and Slack uses it. Zettlr is in the process because it’s apparently a breeze to just add the target.

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#14

I’m glad to hear that an ARM build is planned. I’d love to run Obsidian on my ARM Chromebook.

#15

Maybe we can let our beloved devs take a breath, they’ve been doing work everywhere and steadily releasing stuff, let’s leave them the time to do so :slight_smile: It will certainly come very soon.

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#16

Absolutely! Now that we see that Rosetta doesn’t work with Obsidian, and Electron already does natively work on it, let’s wait for Obsidian devs to rightfully update and get it to work on Apple Silicon whenever they are ready for it.

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#17

EXACTLY!!!..oh…wait…my Apple Silicon MacMini delivers on Tuesday…so MONDAY is a must!!! (:face_with_hand_over_mouth:)

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#18

Thank you so much!

#19

We will work on a native version for apple silicon as soon as electron AND the relative building toolchain is updated.

#20

Let’s try to be clear…do you know whether Obsidian as a current Electron app works on an Apple Mac device with the Apple Silicon M1 chip NOW using Rosetta?

#21

I don’t know for sure. We don’t have the hardware to test it. Given that yours is coming today, please let us know.

#22

FedEx is delivering tomorrow! May take me a while to transfer ‘stuff’ so don’t hold your breath,:wink:. If all goes a smoothly as the MacOS11 Big Sur update…NOT! Try to give an update as soon as possible.

#23

Adding my 2 cents. I have been following this discussion for awhile. I just picked up my MacBook Air M1 16gb and I can confirm that Obsidian works on this machine Big Sur with most recent system update 11.0.1 (20B29) !

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#24

Well…that solves that. Thanks!

#25

Vanstar, can you take a picture a show us? Thanks. . . . .

#26

Just to let everyone know (cross posted from Discord) that we’ll be making an arm64 release as soon as electron-builder supports building those.

Right know it seems that Electron has Apple Silicon support already, so we’re just waiting on the tooling chain to be updated (it’s being actively worked on) so that we don’t have to do a lot of repeated/unnecessary work.

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#27

On my Macbook Pro M1, Obsidian luckily opens and most of the functions work. (Discord could not open, Chrome opens but crashed randomly). The only bug is that I cannot copy and paste text inside Obsidian. So I had to do it in Typora.

#28

Seems like Electron 11 supports Apple Silicon? I’m assuming that means native support and not through Rosetta 2? https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-11-0

#29

@dwstevens yes, that’s literally written 1 post befere yours.

#30

That’s great news! Do you plan to target Linux ARM64 (aarch64) as well? That would make my Chromebook and me very happy. :slight_smile:

#31

So the v0.9.17 release notes state you have a native build, but I tried downloading it, and it stills runs as “Intel” on my M1:

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Did I misunderstand something?