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Windows on ARM is already working on M1 Mac through parallels. The big issue now is licensing and I assume some niceties in terms of official drivers/fine-tunin
by nxc18 6y ago
Windows on ARM is already working on M1 Mac through parallels. The big issue now is licensing and I assume some niceties in terms of official drivers/fine-tuning support.
According to recent videos, Windows in a VM on M1 Mac today has same or better performance than Windows on ARM running natively on Surface Pro X.
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/22/m1-mac-windows-parallels-16/ https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/22/m1-mac-windows-parallel...
https://twitter.com/imbushuo/status/1332484912549687297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/imbushuo/status/1332484912549687297?ref_...
- freeone3000 6y agoLicensing isn't an issue: a standard Windows 10 Pro license is processor-independent and includes a single-seat virtualization license. If Apple allowed it, you could even use the same license for virtualization and BootCamp like you can on amd64 macs.
- temac 6y agoI'm not sure ARM images are available, except for big OEMs. Also IIRC the boot is not restricted to Apple software (or at least can be unlocked), so I'm not sure that Apple is actually disallowing anything. Getting native drivers is another issue...
- freeone3000 6y agoHere's a download link to the image: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewARM64 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsins... If someone wants to try it on an m1 Mac, I'd be interested where it fails.
- philistine 6y agoConsidering the benchmarks of Qualcomm's Kryo 495, it's not surprising. Apple is way ahead of them in every regard.