MicrosoftMicrosoftI had been using Windows for 27 years, up until Windows 7. Two facts prompted me to upgrade to a better platform. I decided that I since I was going to have to change everything when upgrading to Windows 8, I decided that I would rather use a platform that allowed me to run everything. I also was studying computer science at the time and I was thinking that having a platform that I could run everything made more sense than running a Windows platform. I continued to have Windows 8 and 10 in a virtual machine, which is was more stable than on actual hardware. In the intervening years, I have discovered that I do not need Windows as I am only booting the virtual machine to install updates. From what I have read, the Apple M1 based Macintoshes outperform the Surface Pro X by a wide margin. In my field (computer security) it is useful to keep up various operating systems and I just find it wasteful to purchase a machine to rarely use the computer. It would be great to be able to have Windows 10 on ARM opened up to run in virtualization on the Apple M1 Macintoshes or run natively on the Raspberry Pi 4.
