Boot Camp will not be the option
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The bet that Apple has made for the use of ARM processors in its equipment in the medium and long term, has been the most important news this week. A whole media earthquake that also coincided with the presentation of the most powerful supercomputer on the planet, curiously also based on ARM processors
A movement by Apple, of great importance in the industry. For now, Intel is the main victim, but users will also see how some of their habits change And it is that many who used Windows via Boot Camp, they may have to say goodbye to this possibility.
Windows 10 on Mac on the air
When the integration of ARM processors in Apple's Mac range is complete, something for which there is still time left, the option of being able to use Windows on a Mac via Boot Camp will end. Windows, at least the one we know, is designed to be used on computers with X86 processors
Remember that Apple Boot Camp allows you to natively install Windows on your Mac computer with an Intel processor and decide to use an operating system or another of your choice. An equation in which the key is having a Mac computer with an Intel processor.
Then the question arises… Couldn't Windows 10 be used for ARM-based computers? A possibility that a Microsoft executive has categorically denied on The Verge.Apple computers with ARM hearts will not have access to Windows 10 for this architecture:
To use Windows 10 via Boot Camp you need a licensed version of Windows and that's precisely what Microsoft won't do with Windows 10 for ARM processors, a version that is also only downloadable and cannot be purchased in physical format.
We don't know if this position, which now seems immovable, will change in the future. Meanwhile, the solution to access Windows via Mac seems to have to go through remote desktop or simply have a Windows PC as well. And it is that other usable formulas up to now, such as applications to virtualize VMWare or Parallels style, will not be compatible with Apple's Rosetta 2 translation technology until they are updated.
Via | The Verge
