As noted above analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the several people who was right about this ARM event, and who has ties to the Apple supply chain, says that an ARM iMac is expected to be one of the first machines released at the end of the year. Intel Macs will continue to perform for years so it’s really up to you if you want to be one of the guinea pigs dealing with the inevitable, initial jankiness and bugginess in the OS.
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Me too, I’m west of STL. 
I am disappointed and perplexed that nothing was done of substance with Apple Mail.
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I’m there too, only metaphorically.
It’s better in person. 
Especially when you have a baseball season – – – still waiting.
Probably the same option in Sys Prefs.
I try to focus on what people are saying, rather than differences in pronunciation.
I just remembered why I choose Apple!
Thought while watching Tim start the keynote
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I personally want to see Tim Cook do B-52s karaoke.
Anyone else let down with these announcements so far? Don’t even know if ‘d call them nice features…
For power users: back to the pre-2019 feeins on iPadOS?
Not really feeling any let down here. There were enough iPad specific features (and time during the keynote) to let us know that they haven’t forgotten about iPad. A refinement focused year is actually kind of welcome after the rough ride of iOS/iPadOS 13.
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I can multitask. 
Everyone who has predicted it every year is finally vindicated.
Nailed It!
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I’m so hyped and psyched. So happy to finally see that transition to ARM happening, I can’t wait to see what the performances will give. So happy about widgets happening everywhere. I like the refresh of macOS. This WWDC definitely delivered like Christmas.
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Agreed!
I guess the only shortcoming I think they have is not figuring out some way to use CUDA, as a lot of scientific software uses CUDA (i.e. NVidia GPUs) for parallel processing to speed operations. I suppose they have a spat with NVidia.
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Handbrake’s dev doesn’t see the transition as necessarily being difficult; he wrote
“On ARM64 Linux (specifically, Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi), I was able to get Handbrake’s CLI compiled without any fuss, just by following the Linux instructions. Obviously, I can’t compile the Mac Handbrake GUI for ARM, but that should be a fairly simple port-- the CLI contains the meat of what Handbrake does, and that’s already portable. I’d expect ARM Handbrake builds about as soon as someone on the Handbrake team can get their hands on development hardware.”
Apple is providing devs with a $500 16Gb RAM ARM Mac mini (as many have predicted - sorry to Jason Snell and friends who thought Apple would allow it to be installed on iPad Pro units)
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MacOS 11.0 It’s no longer macOS X! Steve Jobs did say that OS X was only good for twenty years.
Very happy to see Parallels running a VM (Linux, but I guess Windows would work too?) on the ARM Mac. That removes a major fear I have. If it actually works.
Meanwhile, basically nothing new for Big Sur other than cosmetic changes to make it look more like iOS. Changes to iOS look useful, though.
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With the exception of making Apple Mail work with Microsoft Exchange, I cannot think of any real improvement in Apple Mail for many years. It’s simple and pretty and does a good job at basic email tasks.
Most consumers and some businesses already rely on tools other than email for much of their communications. At this point I don’t ever expect a major improvement in the app.
Mail absolutely needs a share sheet on iOS though.
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