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Parallels tech preview for M1
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In regards for testing, yes. As in rated TBW of Samsung drive doubling Sandisk drive at same capacity. Thats a fact. (which is probably backed by internal testing by their respective manufacturers)
Actually my “belief” is backed by facts (rated TBW provided by both Samsung and Sandisk) and the maximum amount of data points I can muster from testing historically. And it is good enough for me as an “educated guess”
As I said, If you wanted to get solid numbers to disprove my “hunch” (that is further confirmed by the manufacturer’s TBW rating), feel free to shred a few SSDs doing endurance test.
And you can also check enterprise ssd shipment by companies if you want to confirm that Samsung ships most drives.
Happy new year
Probably not. But there exists powerusers. Things are further complicated when said NANDs are soldered on an tied to the SoC.
This wouldn’t be an issue if Apple had the decency of slotting out the NAND like the Mac Pro 2019.
I qualify myself as a power user, and seriously, I really don’t mind. The computer will be technologically obsolete way before the SSD wear out completely. Again, if you are writing terabytes of data on a mac mini/MacBook every day, you are doing it wrong. Almost nobody on earth does this outside of HPC and servers. And there, server grade SSDs exist exactly for this use case where writes are intensive. The only mac being able to crunch terabytes of data each day is the Mac Pro which, again, has slotted NAND memory. The rest is assumed to be consumer grade, where current endurance even of the cheapest NAND flash is more than correct.
I rather see it as “cheaping out” as they had used Samsung SSDs earlier. Especially since they had saved a lot of cost by rolling their own chips already. (It wouldn’t cost much to add slot) And since each users have different expectations on the machine life. (Some stick with 5 maximum, some keep em for 6-10 years) I’d say its subjective. Also the content creators (many switched from 16” pro) might do enough on their SSD.
So the name of OP’s thread is:
Parallels tech preview for M1
Just posting this incase people forgot.
I have activated my developer Win 10 ARM, with a Win 10 Pro licence key, just because I had a spare and it worked perfectly.
Are you asking about 64bit apps in Windows? If so, yea, the emulation preview engine only runs 32bit apps so far. Haven’t been able to run a 64bit application.
Has anybody encountered crashing during sleep on macOS 11.1 with the current Parallels preview? This is with just the app loaded and no VMs running,
The developer preview, perhaps others I don’t know, I’m only using the developer one, has x64 emulation available now.
Shame, I've been having decent success with x64 on the developer build. I'm sure it won't take them too long to release it to the standard Insider builds.... Well, let's hope anyway.
I don’t have a crystal ball ?, but my guess is a release in late Q1 or early Q2.
I'd like to think so. But I think it's really up to Microsoft. Without a license for Windows to run on it, What is their market?
It’s just a matter of time. Microsoft is anything but proactive. They are supposedly working on their own custom silicon too just like Apple which will likely be on ARM too (because x86 is going nowhere). They will license Windows ARM, it’s just a matter of time.
Microsoft likes to make money just like Parallels does. I keep saying this, but I’ll say it again- the Parallels Store would be a prime location to sell a Windows 10 license w/ a download link or “start install” button...
You know it will be. I also reckon the information will be split into multiple articles piecemeal . . . as is usually the case on MR with decently large stories like this one.
Apps must be compiled in ARM to run natively on Windows ARM. But Microsoft recent’y pushed an update to support both 32 and 64 bits apps through emulation. This works within a VM
I have been testing out the Tech Preview with the latest build from Microsoft that claims to support both 32-bit and 64-bit. It works with some 64-bit apps but not every app works out of the box yet. For ***** and giggles I tried to install Assasins Creed via Steam and as I anticipated that didn't launch.
Overall I'm really happy to see the progress Microsoft is making here. If anything, Apple is pushing Microsoft to up their game with respect to compatibility in the SoC space. Microsoft has a harder time I would think because their overall ecosystem isn't as closed and/or controlled as Apple's is.
Overall I'm really happy to see the progress Microsoft is making here. If anything, Apple is pushing Microsoft to up their game with respect to compatibility in the SoC space. Microsoft has a harder time I would think because their overall ecosystem isn't as closed and/or controlled as Apple's is.