4 years after Apple now Microsoft is starting a serious transistion to ARM processors. First computers are available this week. What is the status with music software? Are there already some apps running nativly on arm? Are others compiled for x86 using the emulation layer? What are your thoughts and experiences?
here is a list of common software, only mentioning specail forks of Audacity. https://armrepo.ver.lt, but what is the status with professional music software?
you mean , again , againā¦ thisāll be third (?) time theyāve tried to move users to ARM.
have they/their partners released some decent/powerful ARM desktop PCs?
itās going to be hard for MSFT to get developers to support without getting a decent share of users onto armā¦ but most avoid, because of lack of applications and drivers.
(this has been the problem in last few years whenever I tried windows arm)
Apple are able to do it (twice now! ), because they use carrot and stick.
carrot - great new hardware, rosetta emulation (which is amazing)
stick - they give no one,.devs or users, a choice, and they will stop supporting past architectures.
its a hardline approach, but it has continually allowed apple to keep moving forward, without the excess baggage of the past.
amusingly, if Microsoft do manage to successfully migrate itāll be good news for Apple users that want to run windows (bootcamp/virutal machine) on apple silicon.
afaik windows already runs on silicon macs
As a worker in the vfx domain and since not a single pro software brand has managed to migrate half decently, half of their tools to the the new ACES standard, I canāt wait to be forced to add a new layer of ānothing worksā but in 16K on ARMā¦
yes, I knowā¦ Ive windows ARM on my M1ā¦
but few windows application work on windows ARM, so its kind of pointless.
you can also run windows intel (āemulatedā) on an M1, but its very slowā¦ but ok for some low performance uses.
note:
my main interest is for development, - basically, compiling and then supporting windows users.
so whilst I can support windows ARM easily, not much point since no userbase/demand.
and windows intel (under emulation) is too slow to be useful.
so I just bought a cheap intel windows laptop which is kinda ok.
has someone experience with the parallels emulation and Windows on ARM (https://www.parallels.com/de/products/desktop/)? Are the programs running? are they slowing down?
ARM desktops no, but the new Surface line is (via Snapdragon chips) and I assume that Samsung is spinning up Exynos production to compete in the hardware space.