This is a demo so take with huge grain of salt, but the x86 performance looks solid... better than I expected considering it's based on an iPad CPU.
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#12It's interesting that their official virtualization support (in the demo) is Parallels.
Curious that they said nothing about virtualizing Windows. That can’t be a mistake or oversight. Odd.
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#13Curious how this will effect "the developer experience" considering that cloud instances are also transforming to ARM based processors.
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#14Besides native apps from Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe (Universal 2), the demo included Maya and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Rosetta 2), and Parallels Desktop (unspecified virtualization improvements). I couldn't tell if the guest O/S was Debian for x84-64 or Aarch64.
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#15I really wonder if this will result in the Mac-ification of iPad. Would love to finally run a MacOS environment on a tablet.
It seems to be going the other way actually. MacOS Big Sur looks like iPadOS with a menu bar tacked on.
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#16Besides native apps from Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe (Universal 2), the demo included Maya and Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Rosetta 2), and Parallels Desktop (unspecified virtualization improvements). I couldn't tell if the guest O/S was Debian for x84-64 or Aarch64.
I was curious about the hardware they used for the demo.
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#17Seems like they’ve just Osborned half the machines for the next 2 years.
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#18am I stupid? how are they running a x86 vm on ARM...
Emulation? I assume using the same kind of tech that let x86 run old PowerPC apps
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#19Tim Cook just said they have new intel macs in the pipeline. Those will go over like a lead balloon.
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#20I really wonder if this will result in the Mac-ification of iPad. Would love to finally run a MacOS environment on a tablet.
It seems to be going the other way actually. MacOS Big Sur looks like iPadOS with a menu bar tacked on.
It’s going both ways - iPadOS now has drop down menus at the top, etc.