for ever every new computer ive bought i ran a program called super pi on it. it is a simple benchmark that calculated 1 meg of primes numbers and give you a result in seconds. is there a. way to run it on my air? or is there a mac version?
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is there a simple way to use a windows app on a macbook air m1
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this app btw https://download.cnet.com/Super-PI/3000-2086_4-75869197.html. i just want to compare my old computers to this one
Pretty sure Crossover should work for that but it's something you have to buy or do a free trial. I think Parallels/VMWare are still in waiting but maybe down the Road they will become available to M1. I am not aware of any simple way to do it like used to be possible with simple Wine and WineBottler apps for the small things...
No, no simple way, but there are ways. Not sure the M1 would do very well at it using a Windows version of the program, you'd pretty much need to port it to MacOS to take full advantage of the way it does floating point.
Crossover may work, though I have not had good luck with it on the M1 Mac. Parallels is a virtual machine solution that you'd have to run Windows on Arm to run the program, so definitely *not* simple.
It probably wouldn't tell you much anyway, as MacOS and the M1 prcessor is a VERY different way of doing things than Windows on x86/64. You'll probably be super dissappointed becuase it probably wont do well, and that would really steer you in the wrong direction as it's just different, and it a lot of ways, faster.
Crossover may work, though I have not had good luck with it on the M1 Mac. Parallels is a virtual machine solution that you'd have to run Windows on Arm to run the program, so definitely *not* simple.
It probably wouldn't tell you much anyway, as MacOS and the M1 prcessor is a VERY different way of doing things than Windows on x86/64. You'll probably be super dissappointed becuase it probably wont do well, and that would really steer you in the wrong direction as it's just different, and it a lot of ways, faster.
There's really no point in benchmarking an M1 Mac using a Windows x86 program in an emulated environment on an ARM processor other than out of curiosity to see how it'll do. But it's not really reflective of true potential given the sheer overhead of the multilevel emulation.
That app has nothing to do with the OP's question.There is this Mac app which lets you calculate pi to a specific number of digits and benchmarks it.
If you have the sources, just compile it to natively target ARM64.
Edit: Just checked, looks like there is no trivial way of getting the sources.
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