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A comment on Ask HN: So, where is the ARM desktop PC?.

Re:Ask HN: So, where is the ARM desktop PC? by panick21_ on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @06:33AM (#33161613)
The blockers are that x86 AMD and Intel machine are hard to beat and software just works better on x86.

With linux you might be partially ok, but with Windows you are not ok.

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Re:Ask HN: So, where is the ARM desktop PC? by kolinko on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @06:39AM (#33161648)
It's an issue with Windows, not ARM. On MacOS software works way better on ARM than it did on x86.
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Re:Ask HN: So, where is the ARM desktop PC? by panick21_ on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:57AM (#33162805)
Yeah but a PC is a whole experience, software and hardware.
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Re:Ask HN: So, where is the ARM desktop PC? by Rhedox on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:26AM (#33163085)
The problem is that Qualcomms CPUs are just a lot slower than what AMD and Intel offer.

It's not the fault of the OS.

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Re:Ask HN: So, where is the ARM desktop PC? by ch_123 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @06:55AM (#33161750)
Running Windows 11 ARM in Parallels on my M1 MBP is a surprisingly smooth experience. Most x86 applications work well (both in terms of reliability and performance) using Microsoft's inbuilt emulation. I have not run any games or larger applications in the VM, but I suspect most Windows users could run on ARM and not notice the difference.
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Re:Ask HN: So, where is the ARM desktop PC? by Ancapistani on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:36AM (#33163857)
I bought my wife a Surface Pro X a while back, and once I realized that x86 emulation worked fine but x86_64 wasn’t a thing, I had no issues at all.
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