| ▲ | M2 iPad Air Runs Windows 11 ARM via Emulation, Thanks to EU Rules(macrumors.com) |
| 9 points by walterbell 8 hours ago | 8 comments |
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| ▲ | brailsafe 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's crazy that Apple Microsofted itself so badly we've come full circle and had to force them to let us improve their product by installing Windows. |
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| ▲ | NoPicklez 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well... I mean in 2009 I remember being able to run Windows on my Mac completed separate from MacOS through bootcamp. They marketed it as the best Windows PC, was on a Mac. They weren't forced to do that but chose to |
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| ▲ | gblargg 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > emulates Windows 11 inside iPadOS by translating Windows code into ARM instructions Do they mean x86 instructions, or Windows system calls? Regardless, there is a Windows 11 ARM64 build so I wonder why they aren't using this. |
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| ▲ | volemo 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Regardless, there is a Windows 11 ARM64 build so I wonder why they aren't using this. Because iPadOS doesn’t support virtualisation, so they have to emulate something. | |
| ▲ | walterbell 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | First sentence of the article: Windows 11 ARM running on an M2 iPad Air using emulation
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| ▲ | volemo 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wonder why they decided to run the ARM version of Windows though. If one emulates, does it really matter what platform to emulate? Isn’t Windows for x86 still quite a bit more useful (e.g. doesn’t have to run a second layer of emulation to run x86 apps)? | |
| ▲ | gblargg 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And it talks about "translating Windows code into ARM", and using a just-in-time compiler. It sounds like perhaps it's "compiling" ARM into ARM, because the original ARM can't be run due to Apple's restrictions. |
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