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Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020

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Re: Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020

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Should be possible for Apple to support this via virtualization. Do you just use boot camp and run it natively?

Virtualization is relatively fast because the cpu instructions aren't actually being emulated. No one is going to be gaming on an X86 emulator, at least not for anything released in the past decade and a half or so.

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Re: Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020

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For my work laptop, I don’t care if my laptop is running an Intel or Apple chip, but for my home laptop, I regularly dual boot to Windows for gaming. Without an Intel chip, I’ll stop buying Apple laptops for home use.

Good that MS is also hard at work on arm support, for the same battery + Android app compatibility reasons

Re: Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020

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For my work laptop, I don’t care if my laptop is running an Intel or Apple chip, but for my home laptop, I regularly dual boot to Windows for gaming. Without an Intel chip, I’ll stop buying Apple laptops for home use.

Should be possible for Apple to support this via virtualization. Do you just use boot camp and run it natively?

I run boot camp, and for gaming, native CPU support is critical.

Re: Intel Expecting Apple to Transition to Custom ARM-Based Chips Starting in 2020

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For my work laptop, I don’t care if my laptop is running an Intel or Apple chip, but for my home laptop, I regularly dual boot to Windows for gaming. Without an Intel chip, I’ll stop buying Apple laptops for home use.

Good that MS is also hard at work on arm support, for the same battery + Android app compatibility reasons

Aren't all the Windows ARM devices locked down? Can users purchase and install their own copies of Windows on a non-MS-affiliated piece of hardware?

That's a requirement for Bootcamp, unless Apple strikes some special deal with MS, and I don't foresee that happening.

Also, the software ecosystem for Windows on ARM still isn't great. There's an emulator built into the OS, but it's an emulator.

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