[criddell]

> the software I might want to use doesn’t support arm

Doesn't Windows come with something like Apple's Rosetta to do on the fly translation? I expect it wouldn't work with games, but most other kinds of software should work.

Rosetta worked quite well for Apple so I would expect Microsoft could do something similar.

[thewebguyd]

Yes, its called prism, supposedly Microsoft is making improvements to it also specifically to go along with this release.

It's not as good as Rosetta 2 was, but its still pretty good.

Problem is not everything runs through emulation though. There's still a lot of edge cases for super old enterprise crap.

[criddell]

I kind of find it hard to believe they would use the name prism...

When I read it, the first thing I thought of is the NSA program named PRISM.

Anyway, I was curious so I googled for differences between the Apple and Microsoft programs and Apple included x86 translation circuitry on their CPU. I wonder why Microsoft didn't do the same?

[thewebguyd]

Probably because MS wasn't involved in the silicon at all. The Snapdragon X Elite was entirely Qualcomm/Nuvia. Not sure why they skipped it though.