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by wpdev_63 1847 days ago
Just picked up the new macbook air m1 and I am staggered to find that I can play starcraft 2 and bioshock decently on a laptop that draws 30watts and is capacitivily cooled... Really just unbelievable.

So if valve could someone get ahold of some cutting edge arm processors in the next few years then this could be very viable(though I doubt they will get it out before the next version of the nintendo switch).
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schmorptron 1847 days ago
Valve has money, but not Apple or Microsoft money. I doubt they'd be able to source a high-power arm chip + the necessary hard/software features to make something like the rosetta compatibility mode possible.
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wpdev_63 1847 days ago
Not necessarily right now but a few years down the road when it actually releases(though no one knows when they'll actually release knowing valve's track record).

Not sure why people are downvoting me....

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schmorptron 1847 days ago
According to the article they are shooting for a late 2021 release date if nothing goes wrong. Fingers crossed they'll say more at E3, which they're attending this year.

Not sure why people are downvoting you either though.

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