Interesting. Samsung making a bold move here, but one that could make sense.

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    Qualcomm has a pretty fast emulator for the growing pains. Microscope offers arm versions for most of their software

    But many open source projects could.be cross compiled it wouldn’t be long if these things start selling.

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      Disagree, I run a MacBook m1 and enjoy it mostly because everything is compiled for arm. The very few software running through Rosetta are slow to launch, drain battery and less performant. If you were to run x64 on arm it just kill the interest of arm: battery becomes just as bad as on x64, performance is worst.

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        Disagree with your disagreement. I also have an M1 and was a quite early adopter (within 3 months of launch). It was really snappy compared to my Intel Air it replaced. From the get-go. Even for apps that were still x86 code.

        Things definitely improved over the next 9 months, but I was and am a really happy camper.

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          I didnt use to run macOS before that but I’m surprised it could be worst, when using app through Rosetta it takes at least 2 or 3 seconds to launch and there is 20-30% more cpu usage. Although Its on my very limited pool of app (2) but even then you would be crazy to run macOS before, it would be more expensive than windows laptop for way less performance.