johntdavis

Microsoft, a private entity, can't declare anything illegal. They can take a position that a practice is in violation of their license agreement for Windows 10/11, but until a court rules on the matter, one can't make a statement on whether the practice is actually illegal.

So the question is: Does the Windows 10/11 license explicitly forbid certain types of virtualization, and if yes, is that prohibition defined in a way that clearly encapsulates running Windows 10/11 (ARM version) on a Mac M(x) chip?

Or: Are they just saying that it's unsupported, they're not going to promise it works, and Microsoft Tech Support won't help you if you do it?

Those are two very different positions. The second is, IMHO, perfectly reasonable, even if I think it's a bad move long term for Microsoft to shut themselves out of an entire hardware platform, and certainly not a good look for them.

The first position starts to look more dubious if they're specifically going out of their way to break Windows' ability to function on the M(x) chips. That starts to look like Microsoft forcing you to buy a preferred partner vendor's (Intel's) hardware to run their software product, when it would otherwise work on a non-preferred vendor's hardware (Apple). But, we don't have enough information to really make a determition about whether that's happening or not, IMHO.

I'm very interested in the S9. Unless I'm missing something, at 27 inches and 5K that should be a Retina DPI display.

macxpress said:

It would be nice if Apple could just make a decent regular 4K display for around $1000. It doesn't need to have speakers, cameras, mics, etc. Just a simple nice 4K panel in an aluminum enclosure. 

A thousand times this. My old LG Ultrafine 4Ks are dying. They won't hold brightness or refresh rate settings whenever they get put to sleep because they take too long to wake up and Mac OS gets confused.

All I want at at this point is the 4.5K display from the M1 iMac in a standalone, metal enclosure. I'd buy 2. Today. And probably a third one later.

One thing that isn't clear to me from reading the press release info:

Does this device somehow overcome the one-USB-C-monitor-only limitation on the current M1 Mac mini? The material says "displays," but my understanding is that the M1 Mac mini will not accept more than one display over Thunderbolt/USB-C.