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I really want to purchase this, but I'm still waiting for clarity on the Windows on ARM licensing situation. It's not going to be possible for me to use this a
by YPPH 5y ago
I really want to purchase this,
but I'm still waiting for clarity on the Windows on ARM licensing situation. It's not going to be possible for me to use this at work in the Insiders build licensing grey area.
It's regrettable that the only thing hindering Windows on Apple silicon is a silly business decision by Microsoft.
- vbezhenar 5y agoI guess that Parallels wouldn't spend engineering resources without some agreements from Microsoft. I, personally, need properly virtualized x86 Windows. Might be slow, whatever, even Windows XP is enough for me. Without x86 Windows I would need to rent a VM and that's a nuisance. Is it possible to just directly run qemu in some kind of emulation mode? I know that docker runs x86 containers, so there should be some way. Emulating x86 is one thing that stops me from ordering Macbook.
- cassianoleal 5y agoBoth Docker Desktop and Podman Machine run emulated x86 machines via QEMU. I never tried to run Windows on it but I imagine it's doable. I have no idea about performance though.
- ghaff 5y agoIf Windows on x86 were important to me, there's no way I would be using some unsupported emulation. Even if I wanted Apple Silicon for some other reason, I'd still just run a Windows x86 laptop (or server) for applications where it's needed.