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		cpursley 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framew... My wife loves her (ancient) Surfacebook and is thinking of upgrading. Any comparability issues with the ARM chip?

timpera 4 months ago [–]

No issues so far, almost 1 year in, but I don't use specialized software: only web browsers, Office suite, Obsidian, Dropbox, PowerToys, FileZilla, Putty, VLC, Notepad++, WSL and random .exe utilities. I've found the emulation to be pretty good, but avoid it if you plan to do any gaming.

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