Subj : Re: Intel: Once mighty, now falling?
To   : Nightfox
From : Vorlon
Date : Mon Jun 02 2025 13:32:57

Hi Nightfox,

 On Sunday June 01 2025, Nightfox said to poindexter FORTRAN:

 N> I recently have heard of an ARM-based edition of Windows, with the full
 N> desktop experience and an Intel emulator to allow it to run Intel
 N> software on ARM.  I belive Microsoft has their own ARM-based PC with
 N> this version of Windows pre-installed.  I haven't seen many ARM-based
 N> Windows PCs yet, but perhaps they'll become more common.

Yes it's the current surface laptop's... One word of warning, "Runaway" you
don't want to touch one. Even though they look and feel like a true windows
x64 machine, they have some very anoying quirks...

Not all software works, and some even has bugs that the x64 versions
don't... In this day and age with cross compiling you'd think that wouldn't
be a issue... Another thing is printer driver support. You are forced to use
MS's own driver and it's like going from a V8 to a mini minor, as the driver
is very basic and cut down to the bone.



\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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