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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 tjansen on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @07:28AM (#33162010)
The blocker is Windows backward-compatibility. Macs are only sold with ARMs these days. Many (most?) Chromebooks are also using ARM. But one of the main reasons for Windows is backward-compatibility, and you won't get it with ARM.
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Re:Ask HN: So, where is the ARM desktop PC? by ekianjo on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @07:52AM (#33162203)
Nothing prevents a rosetta2 like effort from happening on Windows too.
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Re:Ask HN: So, where is the ARM desktop PC? by pavlov on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:18AM (#33162445)
Windows on ARM already has x86-64 emulation. It shipped in Windows 11:

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/12/10/introdu...

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Re:Ask HN: So, where is the ARM desktop PC? by TheLoafOfBread on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:31AM (#33162557)
No it is not. I have Windows 11 on a test machine Samsung Galaxy Book with Snapdragon 7c and can run x86/x64 apps just fine. It is a fine device, but honestly it does not offer any killer feature compared to x86 notebooks.
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