@simple@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoQualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down14 cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.partytechnology@lemmy.ml
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minus-square@IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agoWindows on ARM is a thing, it will run x86 binaries.
minus-squareTroylinkfedilinkEnglish10•9 months agoGord forbid those binaries want to do any actual work though…
minus-squareTroylinkfedilinkEnglish8•9 months agoWindows on ARM will run x86 binaries. But if these binaries require any real processing power, they choke or run really really slowly.
minus-square@IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoI guess it depends on how you define “real processing power”. I run Windows on Arm on my Mac Studio through Parallels. I installed Steam and played Civ 4 and it’s great. Sure, it’s an old game but it runs smoothly.
Windows on ARM is a thing, it will run x86 binaries.
Gord forbid those binaries want to do any actual work though…
I don’t follow?
Windows on ARM will run x86 binaries. But if these binaries require any real processing power, they choke or run really really slowly.
I guess it depends on how you define “real processing power”. I run Windows on Arm on my Mac Studio through Parallels. I installed Steam and played Civ 4 and it’s great. Sure, it’s an old game but it runs smoothly.