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by bombcar 16 days ago
I had high hopes for the Surface but between the confusion (is it arm is it x86 will your printer drivers work?) and some questionable decisions, it fell flat.
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I just got a refurbished Surface laptop for like $350 on Amazon. I only bought it for traveling, but after I set it up for work, I've been using it now for three weeks and it's a pretty nice machine. I don't do gaming or graphics stuff though. And I use an external mouse.
which is crazy since the Mac has no problem running all kinds of old x86 junk
...huh?

Rosetta works very well, but only for those apps that are still compatible with modern macOS at all, and furthermore Rosetta is going away soon.

I don’t know what it was but the x86 version of Postman somehow got installed on my M1 and it was slow like a dog.