Subj : Re: laptops
To   : Tracker1
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Nov 04 2020 08:23:00

  Re: Re: laptops
  By: Tracker1 to Nightfox on Tue Nov 03 2020 03:50 pm

 >> An OS is always most efficient when running directly on the hardware.

 Tr> True, but modern virtualization hooks in the processors helps a bit if 
 Tr> you're emulating for the same architecture... that said, Mac switching 
 Tr> to ARM won't really help x86 software in emulation much.

That's one thing that confuses me a bit about Apple's decision to switch to ARM for their Macs.  Since they switched to Intel, one of their big selling points is now they can run both Mac OS and Windows software natively.  Boot Camp allows dual-booting between Mac OS and Windows, but you can also run Windows in a virtual machine relatively fast within Mac OS.  I imagine you could also install an x86-based Linux distro on it if you wanted to.

At the same time, I've heard Microsoft has a version of Windows 10 that runs on ARM and runs desktop software.  I've heard it also has a 32-bit Intel x86 emulator so you can run Intel x86 desktop software on ARM with it.

Nightfox

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