02-23-2013, 01:52 AM | #1 |
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Run legacy apps in Windows RT
Had to happen sooner or later. First the jaibreak for the Surface RT and now a beta version of an emulator. RT owners might enjoy a full fledged computer before long.
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Running an emulator takes a bit of CPU power. Then running something inside that emulator only adds taxation on the CPU. From what I've read, most of the RT tablets have very slow CPUs. Not to mention space to 'install' these Windows programs.
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This obviously won't turn a Surface into a Core i7 desktop. But it could still be very useful. The Surface RT may not be the latest and greatest but the quad-core 1.4 Tegra 3 CPU is no slouch either. It should be perfectly capable of running all sorts of legacy apps.
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I'm sure there will be some people who have an 'essential' legacy app that won't be ported but I suspect those will be dead, like the legacy apps that aren't being ported to Windows 7. |
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On the other hand, if it's heavily CPU-bound, you will be screwed. |
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Video editing probably would be worthless, but word or excel might be ok.
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The difference between Windows 7 and RT is that Windows 7 can run most legacy apps just fine. So can Windows 8. Windows RT cannot run them at all,and the RT app store right now isn't that great. |
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I used to run Word in an emulator on a 40MHz SPARC. If a multi-core, 1GHz-ish ARM can't handle it, either Word is using a ton of CPU these days or it's not a very good emulator.
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Currently the emulator only runs at the equivalent of a 90MHZ Pentium 3. So at this point there are few practical uses for it, except for those who want to run really simple programs or DOS games, etc. That will get better over time as the developers improve this. And it depends what version of Word we are talking about, Word 2010 demands a 1 GHZ processor, some really old versions would probably run. And a 1 GHZ ARM is not the same as a 1 GHZ Intel processor. Anyway, that is moot -- the native ARM version of Office 2013 runs great.
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Now that you mention it, I've got an article somewhere about Word 6 for the Mac using a ton of CPU on older (pre-PowerPC) hardware. I *know* that Word '03 ran slowly on a 2006 Mac Mini 2,1. So I'd make a case that Word is to blame, not the emulator.
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