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To: Starcitizen

I bought my daughter the new Air with the M1 chip, and it’s impressive. Unless you’re a developer who needs to develop x86 software, e.g., in a Linux VM, I think the new machine will do fine.


54 posted on 01/10/2021 8:38:24 PM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: dinodino

I bought my daughter the new Air with the M1 chip, and it’s impressive. Unless you’re a developer who needs to develop x86 software, e.g., in a Linux VM, I think the new machine will do fine

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Windows x64 mainly with native accelerated graphics. Parallels just cant do it. Unity3D (uses DOT.NET extensively) and Unreal Engine simply doesn’t target ARM processors. Rosetta II and games development/ 3D modeling just doesn’t cut it.

Remember Windows RT that tried it. Super walled garden approach.


56 posted on 01/10/2021 8:46:58 PM PST by Starcitizen (Thank you to the Senate for passing S.386, turning the US into the third-world shithole of India. )
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