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Ah! You're right! No bootcamp. https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21302213/apple-silicon-ma...

That blows my mind. Microsoft has had an ARM version of Windows for years. I would have thought they would have lept to support Bootcamp on these new Macs. That being said, I bought my MBP with 64GB of RAM to run Windows VM's in Parallels, but I no longer have any need to run any software that runs only under Windows. I think the market for Bootcamp is basically just gaming now, and the new consoles are really eroding the performance reasons for choosing a Windows box for that.

> That blows my mind. Microsoft has had an ARM version of Windows for years. I would have thought they would have lept to support Bootcamp on these new Macs.

Why and for who though? Yes, there is an ARM version of windows, but there is pretty much no software for it - and most of the Windows ARM software (Office?) likely has already iOS versions and will have upcoming Mac ARM versions.

I have the feeling that 99%+ of Bootcamp users use it for x86 software.

At WWDC Apple said Bootcamp usage had fallen from 15% of users down to 2%.

> That blows my mind. Microsoft has had an ARM version of Windows for years.

And people went crazy over MS trying to mandate UEFI secure boot on these systems.

Now Apple does the same... And the result? Absolute silence. A world-wide mass of Apple fans suddenly not giving a fuck.

Talk about double standards.

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