Nice. I don't think ARM Windows will go to places anywhere soon since software availability is the only thing that keeps users bound to Windows in the first place.
Still, this is a virtualized version (headline slightly misleading) beating ARM Windows as a host system. Pants down indeed.
I would guess ARM Windows has as much x86 legacy code as Windows 10 has since Windows 95 and before and maybe Apples advantage for intel code just swallows a Surface X.
That said, a MAC Air is still more of a notebook than the silly tabled with an ugly keyboard attached.
>I would guess ARM Windows has as much x86 legacy code as Windows 10 has since Windows 95 and before and maybe Apples advantage for intel code just swallows a Surface X.
Say what? It all boils down to M1 processor being leaps and bounds better than anything Qualcomm offers.
Edit://Windows 10 like every Windows version offered since Windows XP is built on Windows NT(not Windows 95/9x) which supported MIPS, Power PC and DEC Alpha.
More modern versions of Windows(up to server 2008) was also available for the itanium.
Microsoft knows how to make an OS just fine. The UX is a different story as of late but then again I a very happy I moved off MacOS.
> I don't think ARM Windows will go to places anywhere soon since software availability is the only thing that keeps users bound to Windows in the first place.
Windows on ARM has supported x86 (32-bit) emulation for some time now (for just a bit longer than the Surface Pro X has existed), and x64 (x86 64-bit) emulation is in the beta-testing pipeline now. It's a different system than Apple's Rosetta, but capable enough that a lot of legacy Windows applications can run (unmodified) on ARM today. (ETA: You can even find demos of people running Steam and an interesting variety of classic Windows games on ARM hardware.)
The big thing Windows on ARM has needed was the right processor hardware to really make it sing, and if anything this is an indication that Microsoft has been correct to invest in ARM for the last few years, that Windows already benefits from the improvements from Apple Silicon even before being tuned to specific characteristics of the hardware, and possibly a huge blow to Microsoft's ARM partner Qualcomm who should be very worried about catching up to Apple's Silicon efforts.
At this point I wouldn't even be surprised if the next Surface something "X" on ARM switches to Apple Silicon chips if Qualcomm can't keep up. Though it may not be obvious if such a switch occurs because Microsoft has been working to brand their own ARM chips since early in the Qualcomm partnership, albeit nothing to same extent that Apple has been working on it.
I don't see Apple selling their chips to Microsoft anytime soon. Apple Silicon is a huge part of the value proposition for Apple devices, allowing them to achieve a combination of performance, battery life and form factor that other manufacturers just can't do.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 25.3 ms ] threadStill, this is a virtualized version (headline slightly misleading) beating ARM Windows as a host system. Pants down indeed.
I would guess ARM Windows has as much x86 legacy code as Windows 10 has since Windows 95 and before and maybe Apples advantage for intel code just swallows a Surface X.
That said, a MAC Air is still more of a notebook than the silly tabled with an ugly keyboard attached.
Say what? It all boils down to M1 processor being leaps and bounds better than anything Qualcomm offers.
Edit://Windows 10 like every Windows version offered since Windows XP is built on Windows NT(not Windows 95/9x) which supported MIPS, Power PC and DEC Alpha. More modern versions of Windows(up to server 2008) was also available for the itanium. Microsoft knows how to make an OS just fine. The UX is a different story as of late but then again I a very happy I moved off MacOS.
Windows on ARM has supported x86 (32-bit) emulation for some time now (for just a bit longer than the Surface Pro X has existed), and x64 (x86 64-bit) emulation is in the beta-testing pipeline now. It's a different system than Apple's Rosetta, but capable enough that a lot of legacy Windows applications can run (unmodified) on ARM today. (ETA: You can even find demos of people running Steam and an interesting variety of classic Windows games on ARM hardware.)
The big thing Windows on ARM has needed was the right processor hardware to really make it sing, and if anything this is an indication that Microsoft has been correct to invest in ARM for the last few years, that Windows already benefits from the improvements from Apple Silicon even before being tuned to specific characteristics of the hardware, and possibly a huge blow to Microsoft's ARM partner Qualcomm who should be very worried about catching up to Apple's Silicon efforts.
At this point I wouldn't even be surprised if the next Surface something "X" on ARM switches to Apple Silicon chips if Qualcomm can't keep up. Though it may not be obvious if such a switch occurs because Microsoft has been working to brand their own ARM chips since early in the Qualcomm partnership, albeit nothing to same extent that Apple has been working on it.