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Re:First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Lat... by mobilio on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:09PM (#23595424)
Almost definitely - yes.
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Re:First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Lat... by Chernobog on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:12PM (#23595452)
Given that an ARM version of Windows 10 exists, why do you say "almost definitively"?
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Re:First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Lat... by benologist on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:17PM (#23595488)
People mostly dual-boot so they can access software they need that isn't on macOS, but it isn't available on ARM Windows either so why would Apple care to foster a nascent competing platform?
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Re:First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Lat... by snazz on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:34PM (#23595599)
Additionally, the importance of this use-case (from Apple's perspective) has decreased significantly since they originally developed Boot Camp. While I'm sure that many people do run Windows on Mac hardware, the percentage of Mac owners who do this is likely dropping significantly (if I remember correctly, there was a statistic about this in a comment on another thread about ARM Macs).
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Re:First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Lat... by Hamuko on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:22PM (#23595520)
Windows 10 ARM is so useless that there's really no reason to Boot Camp it.
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Re:First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Lat... by mamon on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:36PM (#23595610)
But what if someone wants to Boot Camp ARM Linux?
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Re:First Arm Macs: 13-Inch MacBook Pro, Redesigned iMac; Lat... by snazz on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:38PM (#23595629)
Boot Camp does not work with Linux on Intel Macs, so the question in this case would be whether the low-level bootloader would allow unsigned/third-party code or whether it would be locked-down like on iOS devices.
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