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rcfa said:

Let’s be realistic: Microsoft CANNOT support Windows on M-series CPU Macs, at least not until Apple wants is and actively supports it (maybe even pays it) and Apple doesn’t seem to have any intentions to do so.

Why? Because the M1 chip, while having ARM standard cores, also has proprietary GPU cores and proprietary neutral cores. In short, M$ could only support a fraction of what the CPU has to offer, and would need to rely on costly reverse engineering for the rest, something they’d have to repeat with each iteration of Apple Silicon.

At this point, it’s not even clear if Apple isn’t forking the entire ARM architecture: Apple has introduced proprietary extensions that stand at odds with ARM’s recent extensions to the instruction set.

ARM pushes Ethos (NPU) and Mail (GPU), and as far as I understand Apple’s NPU and GPU cores aren’t superior implementations of the same architecture (as is the case for the CPU part of the M-series chips). So in essence, let’s be clear: Apple’s M-series is only ARM architecture in regards to the ever less relevant CPU part of the SoC, NPU and GPU cores are utterly proprietary, closed, undocumented in need of reverse engineering, designed to be accessed through Apple’s APIs and libraries.

Now tell me again how Microsoft could possibly support Windows on M-series hardware, except through an inferior emulation that’s performance limited because it can’t use the hardware to the fullest. There will of course be VMs that will run it, as whatever standard hardware M$ will support, can be emulated; but it will be “unsupported, use at your own peril”.

It’s also not clear if and when Apple will implement the new developments in the ARM architecture, or just roll their own extensions:

https://www.arm.com/why-arm/architecture/cpu

genovelle said:

bobolicious said:

... drilling down on some of the article links may better help understand her concerns and zeitgeist ...
https://www.theverge.com/22648265/apple-employee-privacy-icloud-id
https://sfbayview.com/2021/03/i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apartment-was-built-on-toxic-waste/
As a very long time Apple customer I have had increasing questions about Apple's direction since 2011.
I am reminded of the 'Think Different' campaign that featured images of individuals such as the civil rights lawyer Gandhi...

I read both of these and find them lacking. In regards to privacy. She is working for the most secretive companies on the planet. They gave them the option of having a separate work phone and to pay for her own personal devices, but she chose not to. It was too inconvenient for her. Her terms of employment clearly state to expect no privacy on devices used for company business. They have a right to monitor these activities and search offices when needed. Just like drug screening can be randomly required when it is company policy. On the environmental thing, she is creating issues by making subjective judgments about reports and their findings being suspicious. California is crazy aggressive on environmental issues and what she is describing would not have been tested to the degree it was in most states. She lost all credibility when she paid almost $1200 for testing that came back negative (inconclusive) which is what every report she questioned provided. Then she wanted to claim it needed to be test that collected data for 6 months. I can promise you, on any given Thursday you can walk outside of a number of cities here in Louisiana within 50 miles of a chemical plant and collect enough toxins from the air in 20 minutes to fill a report and it’s legal. Did she consider the toxins in her tattoos? According to the CDC, You also might become allergic to other products, such as hair dyes, if your tattoo contains p-phenylenediamene (PPD). She may be having a reaction to certain building materials or even types of paint in her apartment that effects no one else because of changes in her body chemistry based on her own choices. 

scott6666 said:

If these people can’t make a TV how on earth are they gonna make a car?

9secondkox2 said:

without dependence on China. 

Thanks though.