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10 hours ago
(This post was last modified: 10 hours ago by jlgtx.)
I'm a long-time Mac guy, and I fully support (and encouraged) Mike's decision to stick with the ARM platform on the Apple side of things. He's already supporting three or four different versions, and there's no point in adding an almost-obsolete hardware platform. The M-series Macs have been around five years now, so you should be able to find an M1 or M2 at very reasonable prices. Plus the desktop and mobile chipsets have now converged -- Apple's all ARM, all the time. Matter of fact, Windows 11 runs really nicely on ARM hardware, and it probably won't be long before Mike will have to recompile the Windows version for ARM (though Microsoft's onboard x86 emulator is stupid fast).
The biggest problem with Windows on ARM, at present, is that pretty much every hardware driver will have to be at least recompiled, and probably rewritten, in order to work.