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I doubt many would find bootcamp on ARM very interesting, especially if that means you need to run Windows-ARM. The great thing about x86 macs is that you can
by 0x0 6y ago
I doubt many would find bootcamp on ARM very interesting, especially if that means you need to run Windows-ARM.
The great thing about x86 macs is that you can run x86/x64 versions of Windows, at decent speeds, through the likes of Virtualbox or VMWare Fusion, and have access to a vast amount of legacy win32/win64 applications.
Nobody needs to run legacy arm windows binaries, there simply aren't any around.
It would be a shame to lose access to decent windows VM performance on the Mac.
- twic 6y agoMaybe we'll see a return to the days of coprocessor expansion cards? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe_Card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe_Card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Processor_Upgrade_Card https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Processor_Upgrade_Ca...
- matt_heimer 6y agoI think a Windows desktop-as-a-service offering similar to Amazon WorkSpaces is more likely.
- unicornfinder 6y agoIndeed and I think it's where the future of the Win32 desktop is. To be clear, not Windows as a whole, but consider how Microsoft suggested not too long ago that they planned to deprecate Win32 eventually (via Windows 10 X) and render those apps via RDP.
- aspenmayer 6y agoHow would games work? I understand that the Xbox One runs a build of Windows 10, and I would expect that to continue on the Series X. Are Xbox One games Win32 binaries?
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- muststopmyths 6y ago> Are Xbox One games Win32 binaries? Nope. You can run UWP on Xbox, but most games don't (because functionality is limited).
- dhosek 6y agoSeems possible. We use VDI at my employer for access to windows apps for developers on Macs. The performance is at least adequate although there are inevitable glitches in the experience, but the same is true of running in Parallels or VMWare. But we do rely on the ability to run the same docker containers locally that we deploy to our servers.
- mr_toad 6y agoIt already exists. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-desktop/
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoI expect someone will come up with an Intel emulator, I have a vague recollection that one existed in the pre-Intel Mac days.
- thejohnconway 6y agoIt was called VirtualPC and it was REALLY slow - 1/8th native speed as I recall. I found it pretty much unusable even on a good G4.
- mrpippy 6y agoI think it’s totally possible there will be external versions of these, connected through USB 3. Around the size of a hard drive, with an Atom or i3 and it’s own RAM/storage. Figure out the right interface and maybe it could be used from an iPad Pro as well.