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Welcome to the M1 Windows project

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Re: Welcome to the M1 Windows project

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Post by mikece »

Why would Apple want to make it hard to run aarch64 Windows on an M1 device? Their support for Windows in Boot Camp drove a lot of sales of Mac hardware after the switch to Intel. Seems Apple is limiting their hardware sales to not support Windows on M-series Macs.

(Then again, if they are having supply/capacity issues then maybe it's a matter it being on the roadmap but they want their hardware running macOS until that demand is fully met?)

Re: Welcome to the M1 Windows project

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Post by hoistbypetard »

mikece wrote: post #2

Why would Apple want to make it hard to run aarch64 Windows on an M1 device? Their support for Windows in Boot Camp drove a lot of sales of Mac hardware after the switch to Intel. Seems Apple is limiting their hardware sales to not support Windows on M-series Macs. (Then again, if they are having supply/capacity issues then maybe it's a matter it being on the roadmap but they want their hardware running macOS until t…

I don't have the impression that they're doing anything specifically to make it hard. But right now users would have to pirate Windows in order to run it on Apple Silicon hardware, so it's hard to argue for an official solution. And they're not currently publishing specs in the open that would really speed it along.

But the Asahi Linux developers say Apple is helping in some measure[1], so it doesn't seem likely that they're hostile to running Windows on these devices.

[1](https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1471799568807636994)

Re: Welcome to the M1 Windows project

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Post by bubblethink »

mikece wrote: post #2

Why would Apple want to make it hard to run aarch64 Windows on an M1 device? Their support for Windows in Boot Camp drove a lot of sales of Mac hardware after the switch to Intel. Seems Apple is limiting their hardware sales to not support Windows on M-series Macs. (Then again, if they are having supply/capacity issues then maybe it's a matter it being on the roadmap but they want their hardware running macOS until t…

The limitation may be on the windows side due to their exclusivity agreements with qualcomm.

Re: Welcome to the M1 Windows project

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Post by r00fus »

mikece wrote: post #2

Why would Apple want to make it hard to run aarch64 Windows on an M1 device? Their support for Windows in Boot Camp drove a lot of sales of Mac hardware after the switch to Intel. Seems Apple is limiting their hardware sales to not support Windows on M-series Macs. (Then again, if they are having supply/capacity issues then maybe it's a matter it being on the roadmap but they want their hardware running macOS until t…

They're not making it hard but they are definitely not wanting to expose any details of their implementation of aarch64 to any would-be ARM hardware competitors.

They have about a 3 year lead as I see it on performance/watt.

Re: Welcome to the M1 Windows project

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mikece wrote: post #2

Why would Apple want to make it hard to run aarch64 Windows on an M1 device? Their support for Windows in Boot Camp drove a lot of sales of Mac hardware after the switch to Intel. Seems Apple is limiting their hardware sales to not support Windows on M-series Macs. (Then again, if they are having supply/capacity issues then maybe it's a matter it being on the roadmap but they want their hardware running macOS until t…

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