Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/28

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Subject: [Leica] Windows on an iPad
From: spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:18:59 -0500
References: <6a7544a61001280608k16a058b7r512c10f4b8e887cf@mail.gmail.com>
 
On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:08, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
> According to the tech specs on the Apple site, the iPad will run Microsoft
> Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XT using the OSX Boot Camp mode. So any
> software that will run on a PC will run on the iPad. Theoretically at 
> least.
> You may have to wait until after market suppliers figure out how to attach
> necessary controllers. I find no problem at all in running PC games on a
> more conventional Intel Mac laptop.

Larry,

iPad's CPU is of the wrong architecture (ARM vs x86) and not fast enough 
(1GHz) to run an emulator at reasonable speed. I doubt if this will happen. 

Besides, Windows has not been designed properly for a touch interface. It's 
gonna to be quite clunky even if it can be made to run on an iPad.

Regards,
Spencer
Replies: Reply from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Windows on an iPad)
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