Subj : Re: laptops
To   : Nightfox
From : Tracker1
Date : Sat Nov 07 2020 09:31:57

On 11/6/2020 4:43 PM, Nightfox wrote:
>> Note: I'm not against it, I just don't see it happening.
> 
> The ability to boot Windows on an Intel Mac has been one of their
> selling points since they switched to Intel processors.  Since both
> Apple and Microsoft are now making versions of their OS for ARM-
> based processors, I imagined Apple would still want to allow booting
> Windows to appeal to those who'd want to do that.  But I guess they
> could go either way.

Just based on their actions with iOS, and that Macs are largely only 
sold for media production and to support (mostly Apple) software 
development, I just don't see them caring about keeping that ability. I 
do think they may take some effort to make Docker work better for 
developers, not sure if they'd get to WSL2 type levels though.

They're really about locking down the boot loader and system access, 
allowing for booting other OSes may undermine that... Not to mention, 
it's not generic arm and has some custom chipsets involved from Apple it 
may not even work well then.

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Michael J. Ryan
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