sc94597 on 15 March 2017
| Tryklon said: Easy to check. Microsoft will soon release Windows 10 for ARM, just take a tablet with the X1, install Windows 10 on it and try to fiddle with the game=P |
It is not this simple. For example, certain android apps support both ARM and X86 cpu's. Guess which CPU's run these applications better. There needs to be optimization to the hardware in order to have a fair comparison.
Similar issues existed when Apple supported both PowerPC and X86 in their tranistion from IBM chips to Intel ones.
As for Microsoft's particular solution
http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/7/13866936/microsoft-windows-10-arm-desktop-apps-support-qualcomm
Microsoft is enabling Windows 10 to support ARM chips directly by building an emulator into the operating system. Devices will be able to run x86 win32 applications like Chrome or Photoshop, but Microsoft won’t be emulating x64 variants of these apps.
