Subj : Re: laptops
To   : Nightfox
From : Tracker1
Date : Thu Nov 05 2020 10:27:27

On 11/4/2020 10:38 PM, Nightfox wrote:
>>> 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
> 
> What editor are you using?  When you quoted my paragraphs, it was only putting a quote character (>) on the first line, and the rest of the lines in my paragraphs didn't have a quote character in front.

Yeah, it does that (Thunderbird over NNTP).  It's because your original 
message doesn't include actual line breaks, so it's a long, single line 
in the quote.

>> As to emulating windows, or running windows apps, I'm not sure if they
>> will work with MS towards better support, or drop the idea altogether
>> since core MS apps have Apple and Online versions, and there's likely
>> less use of Windows emulation these days compared to even a few years ago.
> 
> It's not "Windows emulation" (I haven't heard that term anyway).  Currently, Windows can run on Macs because they use Intel processors - there's no emulation involved.  And for the ARM macs, they'd have to emulate an Intel processor to enable Windows to run - not necessarily emulating Windows (I'm not enturely sure what "Windows emulation" would mean, exactly).

I was referring to the ARM case, where using Windows apps would likely 
be via emulation, and on ARM for x86 windows would be a poor experience 
most likely.  Of course there is Windows ARM, but without x86 there are 
so few apps that are Windows ARM and Windows Only that it's not worth 
the effort most likely.

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