It's been a very, very long time coming, but it looks like it's finally happening.

2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm’s new chip::We’ve already reported on Qualcomm’s new 12-core Arm uberchip, the Snapdragon X Elite, and its claims of x86-beating performance and efficiency. But it takes two to tango when it comes a maj

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    4910·
    11 months ago

    yeah, but were not talkin some niche audience like apple powerpc products. lets not pretend apple had actual marketshare.

    this is messing with legacy windows products that are deeply ingrained the world over. it will be far messier than that apple crap

    • fartsparklesEnglish
      232·
      11 months ago

      I had a Mac G4 just before the transition from PPC and while that was painful (since x86 emulation sucked) this is a whole different kettle of fish.

      These days I’m running all sorts of VMs for research and UTM or QEMU on macOS ARM just doesn’t cut the cheese. On a laptop, sure, ARM is fine. Heck, even in a data centre it’s fine, but on workstations, ARM is too sluggish for virtualisation or anything except ARM. Not to mention the shocking state of Windows 11 on ARM and how loads of Windows components don’t actually function properly or even run. Defenders GUI doesn’t even open!

        • fartsparklesEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Haha thank you for pointing that out! I’m European and clearly awful at American slang. I won’t edit my post as that’s too funny a mistake to remove.