Was that in doubt?
Yeah. It's the first production Mac using an A-chip and is a Mac that has had many things cut out for savings. The question is did Apple feature cut required functionality.
Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
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Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#12Was that in doubt?
It uses the iphone processor (which I think still might be one of those Mchips?) so I think it was ok to be unsure.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#13Funnily it probably runs Windows better than the typical corporate spyware burdened x86 laptop.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#14does that mean since this is the iPhone 16 cpu, by proxy the iPhone 16 can also run Windows in a virtual machine?
Is this a trick question? Of course. However Apple imposed artificial limitations, like disabling JIT.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#15Was that in doubt?
Yeah. It's the first production Mac using an A-chip and is a Mac that has had many things cut out for savings. The question is did Apple feature cut required functionality.
The first Apple Silicon developer boxes were Mac Minis with A series chips so I wouldn’t have expected any issues.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#16Funnily it probably runs Windows better than the typical corporate spyware burdened x86 laptop.
Took 6 minutes from power button to login prompt this morning. Probably even longer from login responsive desktop. So yes, probably!
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#17Not surprising but good to hear. It seems that there really isn’t anything that runs on a new MackBook Air that you couldn’t run on a NEO. It might not be as fast for some things but it gets the job done.
Isn’t basically m1 air equivalent in specs?
I’ve got that one and I’m yet to feel limited.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#18Man, I do wonder what the realistic lifespan of that single NAND chip will be after it gets hammered by constant swapping of running tasks way beyond the capabilities of a 8GB RAM machine. I have a PC with a 10+ year old 256GB SATA Samsung SSD that's still in top shape, but that's different because that drive has those 256GB split over several NAND chips inside, so wear is spread out and shuffled around by the contro…
Most flash has average wear out after 300k cycles. Let's say 64GB is used for swap. That's 19200 TB or 19.2 PETABYTES of Swap usage. Let's say you swap 12GB a day, you will burn out that 64GB of Flash Storage in 4.38 years and my guess is that amount of swap usage is extremely high that user would probably replace laptop sooner out of performance frustration.
Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
#19Can it run Linux?