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Doesn't this kill Boot Camp entirely? Back when I used to encourage people to buy Macbooks (2010-2016), the ability to boot into Windows natively to run progra
by aerotwelve 8y ago
Doesn't this kill Boot Camp entirely?
Back when I used to encourage people to buy Macbooks (2010-2016), the ability to boot into Windows natively to run programs with no OS X equivalent usually gave them the level of comfort necessary to jump ship.
Losing Boot Camp is going to be a big loss.
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- protomyth 8y agoWell, there is a Windows 10 for ARM, so maybe that would be available.
- untog 8y agoI actually wonder what a big loss it would be. I was one of those who switched because of the availability of Boot Camp and have long since left Windows behind. But how many native apps do people really use these days, compared to web sites? I genuinely wonder.
- octorian 8y agoAlmost all serious games are Windows-only native apps, or at least are at launch. Also, there's always going to be something you need to run that's a Windows-only binary. You may not need to run it frequently, and you might only stumble upon it every few years. It might be a utility to interface with a specific piece of hardware, or some program that performs a very specific and/or niche function. But there will always be something.
- MBCook 8y agoWindows 10 can run on ARM. So they could keep it around. Obviously it wouldn’t run most of the software people actually care about. But they could keep it.
- mkl 8y agoWindows 10 on ARM does realtime binary translation of x86-32 programs, so it can still run them, though speed may be an obstacle for some programs.
- MBCook 8y agoI didn’t know that.
- MikusR 8y agoWindows on Arm runs most software people actually care about. The only thing it can't run is 64bit x86 apps. And those can be ported to arm64.
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- saagarjha 8y agoHow's game compatibility?