Elder Scrolls Online M1

Apple has no public plans to support native booting of Windows on Apple Silicon. https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/20/windows-on-apple-silicon-is-up-to-microsoft-says-craig-federighi.

And your friends at Microsoft are doing much better - https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/14/microsoft-announces-apple-silicon-compatible-browser-based-windows-365 .

My recommendation is go buy a few Intel Macs. Keep the M1 as a toy. 😇

On Apple Silicon, the gauntlet of running Windows has been passed to Microsoft. Microsoft already has its own ARM version for Surface Pro. At one point Microsoft Windows NT supported MIPS, Intel, Itanium and Alpha via a HAL. 😉ZeniMax Media is now a part of Microsoft (as of March 2021).

Apple has provided Rosetta2 with some restrictions. See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment for reference. QEMU is an option, but may not be appropriate for gaming.

Apple's key drivers are reducing power consumption and enabling portability of its own ecosystem (iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, macOS) across various hardware footprints. It also does not want to support native booting of any non-Apple OS on Apple Silicon.

At one point Intel was asked if they would produce Apple Silicon, before TSMC stepped in, IIRC.

Having mentioned some of these, developing ARM-based software may not be as expensive as the perception might be. The Linux community does provide versions for ARM CPUs.

ChuckBas4Eva wrote:

I've been a Mac user for over 25 years, and now I have a new Mac that can only play some of the worst games I've ever found myself paying for (thanks, Apple Arcade!) out of wishing that there was anything fun to do on an Apple device.

Assuming you have experienced the PPC-to-Intel transition in the past, the Intel-to-ARM one should not look very different, should it?