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To: AustinBill

I use Parallels to work in Win7, I wonder if new MP’s will allow that if they are no longer Intel based?


48 posted on 11/05/2018 11:32:06 PM PST by Sir_Ed
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To: Sir_Ed
Two answers: First Apple has long experience with emulation and just like Rosetta enabled legacy PPC apps to run on x86 Macs I'm sure a similar such tool will be available to ease migration to Apple's own chips when the time comes.

But second, Microsoft has had Arm versions of Windows in house for a long time. They just never had a reason to release and support them. If Apple provides a mass-market Arm-based platform I've no doubt Microsoft and everyone else will make versions of their products available that run natively on them as well. At the recent iPad Pro announcements, Adobe, for example, announced that the full Photoshop will be available for it.

The bottom line is few users really care about computer instruction sets these days. That's just not a relevant decision point any longer.

65 posted on 11/06/2018 12:31:01 PM PST by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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