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Also Macs that no longer run windows
by chadcmulligan 4y ago
Also Macs that no longer run windows
- icedchai 4y agoYou know you can still run Windows for ARM, right?
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoYeah, but not really much applications on it. Even something ubiquitous like Dropbox won't work on ARM. At least that's my experience with Windows 11 on ARM which I am using for testing.
- pohl 4y agoIt’s amazing that MS, despite its vast resources, hasn’t managed to improve this situation. Tiny, beleaguered NeXT had fat binaries for 4 architectures. Surely Redmond could solve this.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoI mean this is more-less unwillingness of developers to compile for ARM. Look at Notepad++, Python 3 or VSCode, there are ARM version which works exactly same. Simple Win32 applications are working fine, they will get emulated. I only don't understand why is it necessary to have GUI blurred when the application is emulated. You can see that even parts of the core windows dialogs are getting emulated due to this blurred GUI. Apps like Dropbox, will recognize that you are installing them on ARM and will go just NOPE, not supported.
- pohl 4y agoNeXT faced that same possibility, and they dealt with it by making it as easy as activating a single check box, so that it would be silly for developers not to.
- chadcmulligan 4y agoyes, and as TheLoafOfBread says, it doesn't help for a lot of apps. The thing that yanks my chain is it did work for a little while, and they disabled that feature.
- clnq 4y agoThere is no point in running something so unpractical.
- alwillis 4y agoFor the vast majority of Mac users, it’s a non-issue. Since ARM-based Macs have shipped, the Mac has had several record quarters.