Doesn’t LottoPro have an iPhone version. Can you install the iOS version on your mac?
Edit: woops. Looks like other commenters beat me to this dead end suggestion.
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Do we really have to deal with this software compatibility crap again?
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Doesn’t LottoPro have an iPhone version. Can you install the iOS version on your mac?
Edit: woops. Looks like other commenters beat me to this dead end suggestion.
You could try using Wine: https://www.winehq.org/
Make sure to use the latest development version available here: https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds/releases
Officially, only 64-bit Windows apps are supported with this, but I have had some success with 32-bit ones as well.
Make sure to use the latest development version available here: https://github.com/Gcenx/macOS_Wine_builds/releases
Officially, only 64-bit Windows apps are supported with this, but I have had some success with 32-bit ones as well.
Are you for real? Complaining some shifty emulator SW from the days of W7 does not run on an M1 Mac?
Get retroarch or any of the other myriad emulators out there.
As for other x86 software, I have not come across a single binary which does not run in either Docker or W11 Arm on Parallels.
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One observation I will make - you are forgetting that a lot of things, if not most new things, written for desktop machines in the past decade/decade and a half are designed for Chrome, not Windows. And even a good chunk of things that pass themselves off as native (Authy, I'm looking at you...) are just Electron, which is basically Chrome.
Chrome/Electron runs just as poorly on Apple Silicon/OS X as it does on x86/Windows. Equal opportunity inefficiency!
In fact, I was reading something depressing a few days ago talking about Meta's Threads in that context. Apparently people now assume "desktop" version of something means "web-browser-based" (as opposed to mobile, where there's a lot more native apps). Made me sad.
Bottom line - this is not the world of 25 years ago at the height of the dark era where the Mac market share was tiny. Just look at how quickly most of the major players ported their software to Apple Silicon - Adobe, Microsoft, etc were on Apple Silicon very quickly compared to the years it took them to get Intel Mac versions in the Intel transition... or even to migrate from 68K to PPC.
I second that, used thinkpads are a great buy and as long as they have SSD's instead of old style HDD's, they're quite usable. I actually do my work with newer thinkpads and my Mac's are for idle time these days.
I have no quarrel with your need to use a couple of applications that won't run on your Mac Studio. As many others have pointed out, there are relatively inexpensive solutions.
But I don't think it's fair to characterize your problem as "software compatibility crap" or lament the loss of Intel Macs, as if Apple should have kept them around. IMO, the advent of Apple Silicon was a renaissance for the Mac platform, even if the shift away from Intel, which didn't occur immediately, was an inconvenience for some people.
You’re aware the iMac Pro has T2, so the data is encrypted, right?
What about off-lease desktops? Up here, at least, Dell sells off-lease desktops in good condition directly. They're cheap (especially during their month end promotions), reliable, and will probably last forever (or at least until Microsoft throws more arbitrary requirements in their OS). Parts for OptiPlexes, e.g. if you wanted the mounting brackets or cables for different storage configurations, tend to be plentiful on eBay. I'm seeing some HDD-equipped i5-8500s (so ready for Windows 11) for $229 CAD; an SSD-equipped one (256G) for $249 CAD.
My worry about used laptops is that many ThinkPads or Dell Latitudes, just like the Macs, are prone to battery swelling and... well... it's not exactly as easy to get repair parts for that as it with the Macs. I just e-wasted my dad's old Latitude E7470 last week due to battery swelling... made me quite sad, too, but...
Thanks to the highly competitive PC market, you dont need to break any of your body parts to afford a separate PC. Even the “budget“ options (as long as you don’t go below $400) are pretty decent for tasks not asking for a beefy GPU. Forget about parallel and whatnot. Microsoft will surely make ARM Windows better because they want their own surface lineup to have a couple models with amazing battery life, but Windows Run on their own ARM is very unlikely to be compatible with Apple silicon, given how ARM underlying architecture differ greatly from vendor to vendor Because of their specific optimisation.
While I largely agree, one has to be careful when looking at the low-end of the Windows/PC market. You can get a good deal on a perfectly respectable 11th-gen Core i5 machine (sure, the 11th gen is two generations old now, but it was a real, serious CPU) and next to it, for $30 less, there's something with a low-end CPU that is barely faster than a high-end C2Q from the late 2000s. Also avoid anything with eMMC storage, small amounts of soldered RAM without a SODIMM slot for expansion, etc.
I am really confused by this post. to paraphrase it sounds like you wanted a Windows computer and bought a Mac instead (Which Microsoft won't fully support Windows on ARM as a full windows) and now you are upset that Windows software doesn't run? I guess if I bought a Windows computer to run Mac software, I might be upset that it didn't (No, I would never do that). Yes, I suppose it was great when you could use bootcamp on Intel Macs, but it was well publicized that Redmond was not licensing windows on ARM, then they started, but their Windows on ARM is only a less capable version of the full windows.
Yeah, with Mac package, everyone knows what to expect, unlike PC. Same amount of money spent, result can be drastically different from one another.
More importantly, Apple doesn't sell garbage. Someone might debate whether the base model Mac mini or MacBook Air configuration is good enough for particular needs and perhaps the storage or RAM should be more, but they're not garbage.
There are a lot of low-end PC systems that are pure garbage in subtle little ways - lousy wifi cards, lousy wired networking (not that long ago, Dell was giving low-end consumer laptops an Ethernet jack still... 10/100 megabit Ethernet to be precise), lousy hard drives (it's not just hard drives vs SSDs - today's OEM hard drives are going to be worse than 10 years ago's - some PC OEMs have even shipped SMR drives as boot drives, I think), lousy screens, dreadfully slow processors, etc.
For example, I found a "lovely" $299 CAD laptop at Worst Buy. 4 gigs of RAM, 128 gigs SSD, and an Intel N4020 processor, all running Windows 11. Then I go to Geekbench, and, oh, the N4020 gets around 380 single-core, 600 multi-core. My 12-year-old Sandy Bridge laptops with an i7-2630QM get around 500 single-core, 1500 multi-core (but hey, they don't meet Microsoft's "performance and reliability expectations" for Windows 11). Hell, a first-generation high-end C2D is in the high-300s single-core and 600 multi-core, and those processors are almost old enough to vote! Some of these low-end Windows machines are just pure garbage...
Yep, agreed. They're pretty much my go-to recommendation anytime anyone asks for advice on getting a cheap computer, I'm surprised more people don't know about them on the refurbished markets. I bought my T490 (with an upgraded CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a touchscreen) for around $300 from Amazon, and I got a far better computer than I would have gotten spending twice the money on something new at the time.
Supply and demand works in the buyer's favor on these used markets. Corporations dump them in such massive numbers that it pushes the price down.
Have you tried and failed to run your Windows software in Parallels? Everything I've thrown at Parallels on the M1 has run great.
They work too.
That's definitely a worry for laptops, but if you limit battery charging to 80% or so, that usually wont become a problem. I use an app to do that, or some laptops have it built into the BIOS.
I have, and many apps. More things run than don't, but don't ever think that all things run in WoA.
Interesting...
I hate to pass the blame, but from where I'm standing the problems seem mostly related to Microsoft's lack of a comprehensive compatibility layer for x86 software on ARM Windows. While it doesn't help Mac users in the short term that Microsoft is the main barrier to a better Windows-on-Mac experience, the good news is that the current issues will likely be addressed by Microsoft in the future as the PC industry (and Microsoft in particular) further embrace ARM, even if Microsoft spurns Macs.
So...the present situation is a bummer, but I think most of the current constraints to running Windows software on MacOS will be resolved in the longterm.
It's actually different than that, more the way some x86 developers coded, but yeah, I'd put the blame on microsoft as well. But if Microsoft wasn't the way they are we wouldn't have such a versatile and long lived ecosystem, and for that I'm more than happy with the state of things.
For Mac users needing Windows compatibility, that's not Microsoft's fault, it's more the purchasers folly. (myself included)
They wont ever embrace the Arm world, there's no ROI.
Care to elaborate?
Windows runs on literal millions of PC systems, all with different hardware and across many decades. All this sight unseen. It is a technological marvel.
I would hardly say the inability of the Arm variant to run some obscure software on a Mac qualifies as ill intent on part of MS or anyone else.
True
Says who?
Not really, but if developers followed all the microsoft rules and only used the latest VS, their apps would work on whatever Windows platform.
Me. (and what sells in the marketplace)
Does Wine work on Ventura 13.3.1 (a)? The site shows only 10.8 - 10.14. (help me associate the Mac OS version numbers to the right version listed there).
It’s not immediately obvious what happened. You got the third party cord that burned, didn’t want to use the iMac in that state (understandable), and didn’t want to return the Mac or pay for a repair, then bought an Apple silicon Mac.
the AC inlet on the iMac Pro is modular. Have it replaced, wipe it, then sell it.
PC land is very, very, very paranoid about returns. (Look at what happened to Linux netbooks before MS revived XP for netbooks) And this leads to some interesting design choices, e.g. I was at Worst Buy a few weeks ago and noticed that some pre-built gaming desktops (HP or Asus or Acer?) had DVI ports on the video card. DVI stopped being a serious thing for monitors 10+ years ago. Low-end laptops continued to have optical drives until very recently, but no USB-C. Lenovo/Dell/HP are in no hurry to add something they don't think people care about (e.g. touchscreens, which is what killed Windows 8), but they are terrified of people buying a new system, it not connecting to their existing peripherals, and returning the system.
I can't imagine a world where Lenovo/Dell/HP/etc are comfortable selling ARM Windows machines at retail, especially when I believe drivers for, say, printers are architecture-specific in Windows (and not in macOS, I don't think).
I could see ARM for Windows gaining a small niche as a kind of Chromebook competitor running Windows 11 S or some other differently-branded version of Windows that tries to prevent people from assuming compatibility that won't be there, but even that, I'm not sure Lenovo/Dell/HP would want to gamble on.