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to the end user it doesn’t matter if it works.

Emulation is always slower and eats more battery. Microsoft’s laziness is proof they don’t care about that hardware, so may just as well buy an iPad Pro instead.

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n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Emulation is almost always slower and eats more battery.

FTFY. There have been some cases where emulation actually outperforms native execution, though these might be, “the exceptions that prove the rule.” For example, in the early days of World of Warcraft, it actually ran better on WINE on Linux than natively on Windows.

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- woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  For example, in the early days of World of Warcraft, it actually ran better on WINE on Linux than natively on Windows.
  
  WINE literally stands for “WINE Is Not an Emulator”.
  
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  - fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    To be fair this is also a translation layer and not an emulator.
    
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    woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    To be fair this is also a translation layer and not an emulator.
    
    Prism is an x86 emulator for ARM. If you think that Prism is “a translation layer and not an emulator”, I refer you to the very first word of the second to last paragraph of the submitted article.
    
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