

I do not think it will be the dual system version (apps execute directly from the dock etc) but more the old select before boot / at boot time environment with shared disk areas. Gut feel - if the Qualcomm deal is real and comes to an end soon (something the Pi users are crying out for) then yes Windows will come to the Mac BUT it will not be the full Intel version for awhile but a strange hybrid of the ARM / M1 / Intel cross compile. They also warn that you must have a VHDX or ISO of an ARM OS - no Intel translation is possible. Parallels 18 is still supporting Windows the best it can - over 200K apps are now running they claim and Windows can be loaded direct from Microsoft as a VM install option. So you have hardware that can boot and run multiple operating systems but limited specifically for hypervisor support for an operating system that users want but has zero signs of being available on any other chipset bar one!ĭebian under Parallels is solid (assuming you use their RISC versions - Intel versions are a bit hit and miss) but shows it's a VM rather than native still as it needs the hypervisor code to launch as the app launches rather than being 'pre-loaded' when Mac OS starts.


It does not handle some of the newer commands introduced with the Sandy Bridge and Haswell processors and this will be a limit till v3 comes out.

One of the reasons Rosetta 2 is so good is that the M1 chip set was designed to emulate core Intel opcodes in the RISC chips at hardware level rather than full software translation.Interesting things that may point to the future:
