Intel Mac's beating M1 / M1 Pro / M1 Max at their own game ....

[Tagbert]

The problem with WoA is that MS doesn't officially license it for use in a VM. For anyone that is a MS shop, that is a huge problem.

For MS, there's the Qualcomm exclusivity agreement, combined with the fact that M1 can run WoA in a VM faster than it runs on MS's own native hardware.

There were several reports last fall that the exclusivity agreement with Qualcomm is close to expiring though none of them had specific dates. Mediatek is working on ARM chips for Windows to launch after that agreement ends.

 

[pshufd]

It's certainly part of the point. Proving a negative can't really be done on open set problems. It's part of the argument and can be ignored.


Currently, my main problem with WoA, is the EULA -- as a business person I have to abide by it and the EULA for Windows on Arm says that it can only be sold with the hardware it runs on. The insider build get by that with a limited license that's kind of a gray area, but I don't want to have to update with every build as it's a PITA. When Microsoft

Also, WoA doesn't run everything I want to run, though it does run most, performance is okay, but just okay.

What makes this bad for me is I expected to be able to use my M1 MBA just as easily as any Windows laptop and that is definitely not the case.

I have never used bootcamp -- I've been using virtual machines instead for quite a long time. (20 years or so)

I bought a mini last summer to kick the tires and to assess whether it would run my production stuff. I determined that Apple Silicon could but was unhappy with the limitations of the M1 in limited RAM and limited external displays. I also wanted to be able to run a Windows Virtual Machine but I have two Windows desktops that I could use along with the Apple Silicon stuff. I replace the mini with two used iMacs and put the mini up for sale. So I will be all Intel on the desktop. But my laptop is Apple Silicon. I can use it on the road in a pinch - it won't be ideal but serviceable. There is mainly one program that's a problem. The other thing is a couple of Monterey bugs which result in me having to reboot the MacBook Pro M1 Pro every couple of days. It has the memory leak problem(s) as well but fortunately I got 32 GB of RAM. I was having to reboot it regularly for the memory leak problem but the network issue supersedes it now for rebooting.

Ideally we could all determine how our production stuff would do on Apple Silicon just by going through the forums but, ultimately, you may just have to buy one to test out your environment and return it if it doesn't get the job done. I am extremely happy with my current setup despite the issues with Monterey.