BootCamp and M1 Mac Computers

Also, based on https://www.statista.com/statistics/269703/global-market-share-held-by-pc-vendors-since-the-1st-quarter-2009/, Apple is about 8.5% of the total hardware sales now. Perhaps Microsoft, which tracks activations of licenses is the only potential source for Bootcamp vs PC numbers. My guess is that <=98% is PC and <=2% for Windows.

You can find download for the ARM version of Windows, but I can see how if there is no official support it would be unlikely. Would like to see how many copies of Windows on Mac were actually paid for.

As for gaming, Apple's pretty much given up on the discrete GPU market share, which you need for modern games. The M1 has slightly better graphics performance than a 1050ti which is a 5 year old low performance graphics card. The game console get away will a APU since their OS is design for games and the games are designed around them, squeezing as much performance as they can out of them. Retro and low resource games are pretty much all you'd be able to play.

Red and Blue wrote:

Isn't some sort of emulation what Windows was doing the first part of its lifespan? And eventually the hardware became fast enough that it wasn't obvious, until they changed the architecture completely so it was more inherent?

Windows 95 and related descended from MS-DOS, and Windows 95, 98, and ME were rebuilt atop Windows NT and the NT kernel, NT being a project which was descended from another project known as PRISM, but this work did not involve hardware emulation. Windows porting sojourns to Alpha, Itanium, and some other platforms aside, Windows has been based on x86 and more recently on x86-64 for most users.

Windows has implemented hardware emulation on various of its platforms, including FX!32 support on Alpha allowing that architecture to run x86 executables, and the current x86-64 emulation available allowing x86-64 apps to run on Arm.

Various Windows distributions also include virtualization with Hyper-V.

macOS has been ported from PPC to Intel to Arm, (currently) provides hardware emulation with Rosetta 2, and has an integrated hypervisor framework. Rosetta 2 provides emulation support for apps, and not for an entire operating system. UTM (and its QEMU underpinnings) use the macOS hypervisor framework, and also provide emulation support sufficient for an entire operating system.

It already exists. uupdump

Go here and have it build you an ISO. Granted, you'll need a PC to do this, but it will make an actual ISO for ARM Windows.

From there, start up Parallels and when it asks for a VHDX or ISO of the OS, put in this ISO. It will install just like any regular Windows OS does on x64 and you will have the release version of Windows 11.

Now, you still have to license it though. That's not hard to do either. I'd recommend installing Pro edition for 11 and then you just buy a license for x64 Windows and put that in the key under Activation. It will then activate.

No VHDX needed.

As far as M1 support, I think Microsoft has exclusivity agreement with Qualcomm for the moment so they can't support M1 officially but they haven't stopped it from getting updates or installing with Parallels. Just add the virtual TPM to the setup when you install to avoid dealing with that

Derek Currie wrote:

At this time, however, there is no emulator that will run Windows 10 x86 software. That may well change in the future. But keep in mind that running software in emulation is comparatively slow.

There have been emulators (Insignia) in the past, and even now, QEMU exists (https://www.qemu.org).

Also, take a look at

• If you need to install Rosetta on your Mac - Apple Support
• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emulators

Emulators can be slow.

just use parallels. parallels will run decently well considering you have a MacBook Pro m1.

More regarding the latest ARM version of WINE can be found at the Code Weavers site link below.

https://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/announce/

sign up as a windows insider (btw its free) and download the newest windows 10 edition (the one that weight around 9.5 gb)

You are forgetting eGPUs for gamers. There is no need to put it inside the box. TB3/TB4 is fast enough and thermal management is much easier.

as the talk here show, it's not likely bootcamp will but

think closest you can get is by running the windows for arm developer image under the latest version of parallels