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For my work laptop, I don’t care if my laptop is running an Intel or Apple chip, but for my home laptop, I regularly dual boot to Windows for gaming. Without a
by jmpman 8y ago
For my work laptop, I don’t care if my laptop is running an Intel or Apple chip, but for my home laptop, I regularly dual boot to Windows for gaming. Without an Intel chip, I’ll stop buying Apple laptops for home use.
- innagadadavida 8y agoShould be possible for Apple to support this via virtualization. Do you just use boot camp and run it natively?
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoVirtualization is relatively fast because the cpu instructions aren't actually being emulated. No one is going to be gaming on an X86 emulator, at least not for anything released in the past decade and a half or so.
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- jmpman 8y agoI run boot camp, and for gaming, native CPU support is critical.
- shemtovo 8y agoGood that MS is also hard at work on arm support, for the same battery + Android app compatibility reasons
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoAren't all the Windows ARM devices locked down? Can users purchase and install their own copies of Windows on a non-MS-affiliated piece of hardware? That's a requirement for Bootcamp, unless Apple strikes some special deal with MS, and I don't foresee that happening. Also, the software ecosystem for Windows on ARM still isn't great. There's an emulator built into the OS, but it's an emulator.