Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by txcwpalpha on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:10PM (#23604629)

I think that is a slightly different use case, though. That demo was an x86 binary running on ARM MacOS via a translation layer. So if there is a MacOS x86 version of the app you want to run, that might be an option.

But I know a lot of people still run Windows because they want the Windows version of an app, either because it isn't available at all on Mac or just because the Windows version runs better (Excel was a classic example of this for a long time, might still be). In that case, I don't know if that same translation layer will have the same performance (if it can run at all outside of MacOS) when running an entirely different OS.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by ianai on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:15PM (#23604738)

FWIW I remember running PowerPC binaries on Intel macs via Rosetta was pretty painless. They mentioned explicit support for linux/windows emulation so they know it’s an important use case.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by monocasa on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:28PM (#23605033)

They did not mention windows emulation, only Linux/docker.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by justincormack on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:03PM (#23605670)

I don't believe Rosetta will work for linux/windows VMs.

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