Re:VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now A...
by vegai_ on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:06AM
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Well, I just got a new Thinkpad. In it, Ryzen 59something.
Granted, I never got to try M1s, but this is plenty faster than my the Macbook Pro "16 for anything, and I hardly ever hear the fan. Battery life is still something that Apple has an upper hand on, but other than that, x86 seems to still be doing well.
Re:VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now A...
by COM2323 on Monday October 04, 2021 @10:07AM
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Dying? We have one decent ARM CPU that is limited to specific locked down platform/manufacturer. I believe that "x86 is dying" when the situation is reversed.
Re:VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon Public Tech Preview Now A...
by smoldesu on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:47AM
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Conversely, I got an M1 machine for work and I've found that it's pretty useless unless your workload has been specifically tuned for it (like YouTube browsing or Twitter scrolling). There's no way in hell I'm using Rosetta to compile my x86 binaries, especially on a professional basis.
ps. currently 2 out of 459 processes on my desktop are running in x86 emulation; sourcetree and some speech synthesis thing.